date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: dates
Etymology: From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”). Doublet of data.
Senses: examples: text: the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
text: US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
text: And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
examples: text: the date for pleading
text: The start date for the festival is September 2.
text: He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
ref: 1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II:
text: Do you know the date of the wedding?
text: We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
glosses: A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
examples: text: You may need that at a later date.
glosses: A point in time.
examples: text: But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
text: What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
glosses: An assigned end; a conclusion.
examples: text: Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 45:
text: 1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,
Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
And to have children wise and valorous.
glosses: A given or assigned length of life; duration.
examples: text: I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
text: "Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."
"I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"
ref: 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121:
glosses: A pre-arranged meeting.
examples: text: I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
glosses: One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
examples: text: We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.
text: The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.
glosses: A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
Hypernyms: time
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: birth date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: call date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: date of birth
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: entry date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: expiration date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: expiry date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: fume date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: Julian date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: maturity date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: ordinal date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: posting date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: settlement date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: sidereal date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: spot date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: trade date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: value date
sense: Hyponyms of date (time)
word: vest date
Derived terms: airdate
angel date
bear date
best-before date
best before date
best-by date
birthdate
blackout date
blind date
carbon-date
catch a date
cheap date
closing date
crewdate
crew date
cyberdate
dateaversary
datebook
date coaching
dateless
dateline
Date Line
datemark
date night
date of birth
date of death
date rape
date-rape
date rape drug
date rapist
date-rapist
datestamp
datestone
date sugar
datetime
date-time
datewise
date with destiny
dateworthy
day-and-date
deathdate
death date
dendrodate
desert date
doomsdate
double-date
double date
due date
Dutch date
dutch date
e-date
estimated date of delivery
expected date of confinement
heavy date
holidate
hot date
in date
inflate-a-date
interdate
International Date Line
issue date
it's a date
mandate
man date
misdate
month to date
multidate
nondate
of even date
outdate
out of date
out-of-date
overdate
playdate
play date
postdate
post-date
pre-date
raindate
red letter date
save the date
sell-by date
sexpiration date
speed date
stardate
street date
till date
to-date
to date
transaction date
up-date
update
uptodate
up-to-date
up to date
use-by date
what date is it today
year to date
year-to-date