Definition of "date"

date¹

/deɪt/

noun
plural dates
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.
2. The date palm.

date²

/deɪt/

noun
plural dates
1. 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.
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  And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
  1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], (please specify the page number)
2. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
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  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.
  1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II
3. A point in time.
4. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
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  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.
  1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
  What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
  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
5. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
  Quotations
  Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 45
  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.
  1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5
6. A pre-arranged meeting.
  Quotations
  "Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York.""I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"
  1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121
7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.
8. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
verb
third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated
1. (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
  Quotations
  You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
  1699, Joseph Addison, Letter to Rt. Hon. Charles Montagu, Esq., Blois, France; republished in Lucy Aikin, chapter 3, in The Life of Joseph Addison, volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, page 79
  I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
  1796 January 1, William Cobbett, A New Year's Gift to the Democrats, footnote; republished in Porcupine's Works, volume 2, London: For Cobbett and Morgan, 1801, page 430
  In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.
  1865, Matthew Arnold, “Marcus Aurelius”, in Essays in Criticism, London: Macmillan and Co. […], page 281
2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
  Quotations
  The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
  1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 202
3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.
4. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
5. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
  Quotations
  Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
  2008 May 15, “Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston”, in NEWS.com.au
6. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
  Quotations
  In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
  1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, page 603
8. (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
  Quotations
  The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
  1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France
  He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎
  From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
  2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52

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