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Date

//deɪt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A ghost town in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.

Noun

1
The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
"We made a nice cake from dates."
2
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.
"the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc."
3
sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed wordnet
4
The date palm.
"There were a few dates planted around the house."
5
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
"the date for pleading"

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6
a meeting arranged in advance wordnet
7
The anus. Australia, New-Zealand
"The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max."
8
A point in time.
"You may need that at a later date."
9
a participant in a date wordnet
10
An assigned end; a conclusion. rare
"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."
11
the present wordnet
12
A given or assigned length of life; duration. obsolete
"Good luck prolonged hath thy date."
13
the specified day of the month wordnet
14
A pre-arranged meeting.
"I arranged a date with my Australian business partners."
15
a particular day specified as the time something happens wordnet
16
One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
"I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date."
17
the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred wordnet
18
A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
"We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after."

Verb

1
To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. transitive
"to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter"
2
assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of wordnet
3
To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. transitive
"The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake."
4
provide with a dateline; mark with a date wordnet
5
To determine the age of something. transitive
"to date the building of the pyramids"

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stamp with a date wordnet
7
To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates. transitive
8
go on a date with wordnet
9
To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with. broadly, transitive
"Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston."
10
date regularly; have a steady relationship with wordnet
11
To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other. broadly, reciprocal
"They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months."
12
To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc. ambitransitive
"This show hasn't dated well."
13
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned. intransitive
"The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Marathi दाते (dāte), from Sanskrit दाता (dātā), nominative singular of दातृ (dātṛ, “giver, donor”). * Borrowed from Japanese 伊達 (Date, “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”), a habitational surname.

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