dating
/ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.70 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single."
- "We met on a popular dating app."
- "1922 (July), A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". The Scientific Monthly 15(1): 5-21. A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent."
- "Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;"
- "The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund."
- "Different dendrochronological datings have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/