date
Forms
- Plural
- dates
- present (v1)
- date
- past (v2)
- dated
- past participle (v3)
- dated
- present participle
- dating
- 3rd person singular
- dates
Definitions
1.The anus.
- Black Superman could kiss his date, the little faggot.
- 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.
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.
- And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
- US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
3.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.
4.The date palm.
- There were a few dates planted around the house.
1.To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
- 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.
- 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.
2.To determine the age of something.
3.To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
4.To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #994
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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”).