date
noun
[ deɪt ]
• the day of the month or year as specified by a number.
• "what's the date today?"
• a social or romantic appointment or engagement.
• "I've got a hot date"
date
verb
• establish or ascertain the date of (an object or event).
• "they date the paintings to 1460–70"
Similar:
assign a date to,
put a date on/to,
carbon-date,
• reveal (someone) as being old-fashioned.
• "jazzy—does that word date me?"
• go out with (someone in whom one is romantically or sexually interested).
• "a few years ago, I dated the ex of a friend"
Similar:
go out with,
take out,
go around with,
go with,
be involved with,
be romantically linked with,
see,
court,
woo,
go steady with,
step out with,
track square with,
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin data, feminine past participle of dare ‘give’; from the Latin formula used in dating letters, data (epistola) ‘(letter) given or delivered’, to record a particular time or place.
date
noun
• a sweet, dark brown oval fruit containing a hard stone, usually eaten dried.
• a tall palm tree which bears clusters of dates, native to western Asia and North Africa.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, via Latin from Greek daktulos ‘finger’ (because of the fingerlike shape of its leaves).
to date
• until now.
• "their finest work to date"
Similar:
so far,
thus far,
yet,
as yet,
up to now/then,
till now/then,
until now/then,
as of now,
up to the present (time),
up to this/that point,
hitherto,
thitherto,
Opposite:
since then,
to come,
