date
/deɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.22 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
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1
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4
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Meaning
noun
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.
noun
The date palm.
noun
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.
noun
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
noun
noun
An assigned end; a conclusion.
Example Sentences
- "We made a nice cake from dates."
- "There were a few dates planted around the house."
- "The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max."
- "Black Superman could kiss his date, the little faggot."
- "the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc."
- "US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008."
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 dactyl and dactylus. Displaced native Old English fingeræppel, literally "finger-apple".
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go out
see
age
elden
obsolesce
date
go out [with]
go with
go together
hang together
have a thing
step out