'Date' definitions:

Definition of 'date'

From: WordNet
noun
The specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: date, day of the month]
noun
A participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: date, escort]
noun
A meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement]
noun
A particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular date]
noun
The present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"
noun
The particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class"
noun
A particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law"
noun
Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
verb
Go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
verb
Stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date, date stamp]
verb
Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
verb
Date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see]
verb
Provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"

Definition of 'Date'

From: GCIDE
  • Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]
  • 1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: We may say dated at or from a place. [1913 Webster]
  • The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T. Curtis. [1913 Webster]
  • You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Date'

From: GCIDE
  • Date \Date\, n. [F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of dare to give; akin to Gr. ?, OSlaw. dati, Skr. d[=a]. Cf. Datum, Dose, Dato, Die.]
  • 1. That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. [1913 Webster]
  • And bonds without a date, they say, are void. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. [1913 Webster]
  • He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest. --Akenside. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Good luck prolonged hath thy date. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Through his life's whole date. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Date'

From: GCIDE
  • Date \Date\, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel. [1913 Webster]
  • Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is {Ph[oe]nix dactylifera}. See Illust.
  • Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus).
  • Date shell, or Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Date'

From: GCIDE
  • Date \Date\, v. i. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from. [1913 Webster]
  • The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Date'

From: Easton
  • Date the fruit of a species of palm (q.v.), the Phoenix dactilifera. This was a common tree in Palestine (Joel 1:12; Neh. 8:15). Palm branches were carried by the Jews on festive occasions, and especially at the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:40; Neh. 8:15).

Synonyms of 'date'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Date'