Date

Noun

 * 1)  The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
 * 2)  The date palm itself.

Derived terms

 * date palm or date tree (Botany): the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phoenix dactylifera
 * date plum (Botany): the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros lotus)
 * date shell or date fish (Zoölogy): a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.

Noun

 * 1) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
 * 2) * John Dryden,
 * And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
 * US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
 * the date for pleading
 * 1) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.
 * 2) * Mark Akenside,
 * He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
 * 1) A point in time, as in You may need that at a later date.
 * 2)  Assigned end; conclusion.
 * 3) * Alexander Pope,
 * What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
 * 1)  Given or assigned length of life; duration.
 * 2) * Edmund Spenser,
 * Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
 * 1) * George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,  lines 282–5,
 * As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,
 * Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
 * Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
 * And to have children wise and valorous.
 * 1) A pre-arranged social meeting.
 * 2) A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
 * 3) A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

Derived terms

 * blind date
 * date night
 * speed date
 * transaction date
 * transaction date

Verb

 * 1)  To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
 * The letter is dated at Philadephia. - G. T. Curtis
 * You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. - Joseph Addison
 * In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. - M. Arnold
 * 1)  To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
 * 2)  To determine the age of something; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
 * 3)  To take (someone) on a series of dates.
 * 4)  to have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with
 * 5) * May 15 2008, NEWS.com.au - Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston
 * Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex- boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
 * 1)  of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship
 * 2)  To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
 * This show hasn't dated well.
 * 1)  To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from
 * The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. - E. Everett

Adjectives for Date
ineffective; arbitrary; fixed; exact; recent; ancient; prescribed; decisive; closing; historical; equivalent; significant; future; remote; immediate; memorable; subsequent; calamitous; lasting; endless; tentative; dark; dividing; equinoctial.

Verbs
ascribe—to; assign—to; bear—; calculate—; cancel—; confirm—; denote—; determine—; extend—; fix—; forestall—; in¬scribe—; insert—; jot down—; limit to—; mark with—; reckon—; refer to—; require—; set—; specify—; —denotes; —expires.

Adverbs for Date
variously; significantly; recently; historically; tentatively; unquestionably; subsequently.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From datte:, from  dactylus:, from  δάκτυλος: (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably from a Semitic source such as  دقل: or  דקל:.

Etymology 2
From French date, data, from Latin datus given, past participle of dare to give; akin to Greek, Old Slavonic dati, Sanskrit dā. Compare datum, dose, Dato, Die

Noun

 * Arabic: تمرة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: datil
 * Belarusian: фінік
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: datez (collective), datezenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: dàtil
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 棗兒, 枣儿, 金棗, 金枣
 * Croatian: datula, urma, hurma
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: dattel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian: ფინიკი (p‘iniki)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: खजूर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ナツメヤシの実
 * Japanese: ナツメヤシの実


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خورما
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: datulė
 * Macedonian:, датула
 * Maltese: tamra
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: خُرما.رُطب
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: खजूर
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: урма, финик датуља
 * Roman: urma, finik , datulja
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఖర్జూరం (kharjooraM)
 * Thai: ผลอินทผลัม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: фінік
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: daet
 * Welsh: dyddiad
 * Volapük: daet
 * Welsh: dyddiad

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तारीख़


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 日付
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: data
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:
 * Urdu: تاریخ


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: deiziad, deiziadoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tidspunkt,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kuupäev
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თარიღი (t‘ariği)
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तारीख़
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 日付
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 날자
 * Latin: ,
 * Latin: ,


 * Macedonian:
 * Mongolian: ѳдѳр
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dată
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: датум
 * Roman: datum
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తేది (taedi)
 * Thai: วันที่
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: تاریخ
 * Welsh: dyddiad
 * Yiddish: דאַטע (date)
 * Thai: วันที่
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: تاریخ
 * Welsh: dyddiad
 * Yiddish: דאַטע (date)
 * Yiddish: דאַטע (date)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tidspunkt
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: data
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tidpunkt


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tähtaeg
 * Finnish:, ,


 * German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:


 * Estonian: eluiga
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Macedonian: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Arabic: مواعدة, موعد
 * Armenian: ժամադրություն (žamadrutyun)
 * Breton: emgav, emgavioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stævnemøde
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: rendevuo
 * Estonian: kohtumine, kohtamine (the latter only a romantic meeting)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: συνάντηση
 * Hebrew: פגישה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: stefnumót
 * Indonesian: kencan
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, (the latter also as romantic meeting)
 * Icelandic: stefnumót
 * Indonesian: kencan
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, (the latter also as romantic meeting)


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 만날 약속
 * Macedonian: состанок
 * Norwegian: stevnemøte,
 * Persian: قرار
 * Polish:, spotkanie
 * Portuguese: (romantic meeting)
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: träff
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: oed
 * Yiddish: טרעפֿונג (trefung)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: träff
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: oed
 * Yiddish: טרעפֿונג (trefung)
 * Welsh: oed
 * Yiddish: טרעפֿונג (trefung)
 * Yiddish: טרעפֿונג (trefung)


 * Danish: ledsager
 * Estonian: kaaslane
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, Partnerin, (colloquial, arbitrary gender)
 * Norwegian: ledsager, noledsagerinne,


 * Polish: towarzysz, towarzyszka, osoba towarzysząca
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: întâlnire
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: träff


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: (meeting),  (person)
 * French:, rendez-vous d'amour
 * German:


 * Icelandic: stefnumót
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 逢引
 * Lithuanian: pasimatymas
 * Persian:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: датирам
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: датира
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (’árraxa)
 * Bulgarian: датирам
 * Czech:
 * Danish:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: datare
 * Norwegian: sette dato
 * Swedish:


 * Breton: deiziañ
 * Bulgarian: датирам
 * Czech:
 * Danish: datere, tidsbestemme, tidsfæste
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: датира
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: datera, åldersbestämma


 * Catalan:, quedar (amb algú)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: (s)
 * Danish: gå ud med, komme sammen med
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: rendevui
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 付き合う,, デートする
 * Macedonian: се гледа
 * Norwegian: begynne med
 * Polish: chodzić (z), spotykać się
 * Russian: встречаться
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: träffa, gå ut med


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Macedonian: застарува


 * Norwegian: eldes
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: se
 * Dutch: dateren (with van or uit)
 * Esperanto: datiĝi (with de)


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: датира


 * : לתארך (letaarekh)

Anagrams

 * AEDT, EDTA, TAED

Etymology
decem

Numeral

 * 1)  ten

Noun

 * 1) date (point in time)

Participle
date



Noun
date



Verb
date


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of dare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of dare
 * 3) feminine plural of dato, past participle of dare

Noun

 * 1)  fruit