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- [deyt]
- /deɪt/
- /deɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [deyt]
- /deɪt/
Definitions of date word
- countable noun date A date is a specific time that can be named, for example a particular day or a particular year. 3
- verb date If you date something, you give or discover the date when it was made or when it began. 3
- verb date When you date something such as a letter or a cheque, you write that day's date on it. 3
- singular noun date If you want to refer to an event without saying exactly when it will happen or when it happened, you can say that it will happen or happened at some date in the future or past. 3
- verb date If something dates, it goes out of fashion and becomes unacceptable to modern tastes. 3
- verb date If your ideas, what you say, or the things that you like or can remember date you, they show that you are quite old or older than the people you are with. 3
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Origin of date
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; (noun) Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin data, noun use of data (feminine of datus, past participle of dare to give), from the phrase data (Romae) written, given (at Rome); (v.) Middle English daten to sign or date a document, derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Date
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
date popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
date usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for date
verb date
- come from — to be or have been a resident or native (of)
- register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
- determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
- mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- record — to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.
noun date
- day — A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
- time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- age — Your age is the number of years that you have lived.
- hour — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
Antonyms for date
verb date
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
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