Date

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Date, n. & v.
--n.
1 a day of the month, esp. specified by a number.
2 a particular day or year, esp. when a given event occurred.
3 a statement (usu. giving the day, month, and year) in a document or inscription etc., of the time of composition or publication.
4 the period to which a work of art etc. belongs.
5 the time when an event happens or is to happen.
6 colloq. a an engagement or appointment, esp. with a person of the opposite sex. b US a person with whom one has a social engagement.
--v.
1 tr. mark with a date.
2 tr. a assign a date to (an object, event, etc.). b (foll. by to) assign to a particular time, period, etc.
3 intr. (often foll. by from, back to, etc.) have its origins at a particular time.
4 intr. be recognizable as from a past or particular period; become evidently out of date (a design that does not date).
5 tr. indicate or expose as being out of date (that hat really dates you).
6 colloq. a tr. make an arrangement with (a person) to meet socially. b intr. meet socially by agreement (they are now dating regularly).

Idiom

date-line
1 the line from north to south partly along the meridian 180° from Greenwich, to the east of which the date is a day earlier than it is to the west.
2 a line at the head of a dispatch or special article in a newspaper showing the date and place of writing.
date-stamp n.
1 an adjustable rubber stamp etc. used to record a date.
2 the impression made by this.
--v.tr. mark with a date-stamp. out of date ( attrib. out-of-date) old-fashioned, obsolete. to date until now. up to date ( attrib. up-to-date) meeting or according to the latest requirements, knowledge, or fashion; modern.

Date, n.
1 a dark oval single-stoned fruit.
2 (in full date-palm) the tall tree Phoenix dactylifera, native to W. Asia and N. Africa, bearing this fruit.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L dactylus f. Gk daktulos finger, from the shape of its leaf

THESAURUS

Date

International Date Line, Platonic year, accompany, aeon, age, ancient, annus magnus, antedate, antiquate, antiquated, appointment, archaic, arrangement, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, backdate, ball, be dated, bear date, beau, become extinct, become obsolete, blind date, booking, borscht circuit, boy, boyfriend, brawl, bunch, bunch up, captive, catch, caucus, circuit, clot, cluster, collect, colloquium, come together, commission, committee, companion, conclave, concourse, congregate, congregation, congress, conquest, contemporary, conventicle, convention, converge, convocation, copulate, coquette, council, couple, court, crowd, current, cycle, cycle of indiction, dance, date at, date line, date-stamp, dated, dateline, datemark, day, diet, double date, eisteddfod, engagement, engagement book, entertain, epoch, era, escort, fade, fashionable, festivity, fete, fixture, flirt, flock together, flow together, forgather, forgathering, forum, fossilize, friend, fuse, fust, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering, generation, get-together, girl, great year, grow old, herd together, hive, honey, horde, housewarming, huddle, indiction, interview, latest, league, levee, link, lose currency, lover, make a date, man, mass, meet, meeting, merge, mill, modern, molder, muster, obsolesce, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, out of date, outdate, outmoded, panel, party, passe, period, perish, phase, playing engagement, plenum, point of time, postdate, predate, prom, quorum, rally, rally around, reception, rendezvous, run, rust, seance, season, see, seethe, session, set the date, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, stage, stand, steady, stream, superannuate, surge, swain, swarm, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, symposium, synod, take out, throng, time, tour, trendy, tryst, turnout, unite, update, vamp, vampire, vaudeville circuit, woman, woo, year

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Date

Time

N time, duration, period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season, the whole time, the whole period, space-time, course, snap, intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency, intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude, respite, era, epoch, time of life, age, year, date, decade, moment, glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time, arrow of time, river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time, scythe, continuing, on foot, permanent, while, whilst, during, pending, during the time, during the interval, in the course of, at that point, at that point in time, for the time being, day by day, in the time of, when, meantime, meanwhile, in the meantime, in the interim, ad interim, pendente lite, de die in diem, from day to day, from hour to hour, hourly, always, for a time, for a season, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point, the whole time, all the time, all along, throughout, for good, hereupon, thereupon, whereupon, then, anno Domini, A, D, ante Christum, A, C, before Christ, B, C, anno urbis conditae, A, U, C, anno regni, A, R, once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once, time flies, tempus fugit, time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, time and tide wait for no man, ad calendas Groecas, panting Time toileth after him in vain, 'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion, rich with the spoils of time, tempus edax rerum, the long hours come and go, the time is out of joint, Time rolls his ceaseless course, Time the foe of man's dominion, time wasted is existence, used is life, truditur dies die, volat hora per orbem, carpe diem.

Chronometry

N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.

VB fix the time, mark the time, date, register, chronicle, measure time, beat time, mark time, bear date, synchronize watches.