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dated adjective [ ˈdeɪtɪd ]

• marked with a date.
• "a signed and dated painting"
• old-fashioned.
• "a dated expression"

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.


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