Dictionaries › English

date

Pronunciation: /deɪt/

The English word “date” has 19 meanings listed here.

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.
  2. The date palm.
  3. The anus.
  4. 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.
  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.
  6. A point in time.
  7. An assigned end; a conclusion.
  8. A given or assigned length of life; duration.
  9. A pre-arranged meeting.
  10. One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
  11. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

verb

  1. To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
  2. To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
  3. To determine the age of something.
  4. To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
  5. To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
  6. To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
  7. To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
  8. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

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”). Doublet of…

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “date” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.