I. date 1 S1 W1 /deɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[ Word Family: verb : ↑ date , ↑ predate ; adjective : ↑ dated , ↑ outdated ; noun : ↑ date ]
[ Sense 1-5: Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: French ; Origin: Late Latin data , from the past participle of Latin dare 'to give' ]
[ Sense 6: Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: Greek daktylos 'finger' ]
1 . DAY a particular day of the month or year, especially shown by a number:
The date on the letter was 30th August 1962.
What’s today’s date?
date of
What’s the date of the next meeting?
You should apply at least 8 weeks before your date of departure.
date for
Have you set a date for the wedding yet?
2 . at a later/future date formal at some time in the future SYN later :
The details will be agreed at a later date.
3 . to date up to now:
The cost of the work to date has been about £150 million.
Her best performance to date was her third place at the World Junior Championships.
4 . ROMANTIC MEETING
a) an occasion when you go out with someone that you like in a romantic way
date with
I’ve got a date with Andrea tomorrow night.
I felt like a teenager going out on a first date.
⇨ ↑ blind date
b) American English someone that you have a date with
sb’s date
Can I bring my date to the party?
5 . ARRANGEMENT TO MEET SOMEBODY a time arranged to meet someone, especially socially:
Let’s make a date to come over and visit.
6 . FRUIT a sweet sticky brown fruit with a long hard seed inside
⇨ ↑ closing date , ⇨ expiry date at ↑ expiry (2), ⇨ ↑ out-of-date , ↑ sell-by date , ↑ up-to-date
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COLLOCATIONS
■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + date
▪ the exact/precise date
I can’t remember the exact date we moved into this house.
▪ the agreed date British English , agreed upon date American English (=one that people have agreed on)
The work was not finished by the agreed date.
▪ the closing date (=the last day you can officially do something)
The closing date for applications is April 30th.
▪ the due date (=the date by which something is due to happen)
Payment must be made by the due date.
▪ the delivery date (=a date on which goods will be delivered)
The delivery date should be around 23rd August.
▪ the publication date (=the date when something is published)
We are aiming at a publication date of mid-November.
▪ the departure date (=the date when someone leaves)
My departure date was only a few days away.
▪ the expiry date British English , expiration date American English (=a date on a product after which it cannot be used)
Check the expiry date on your credit card.
▪ the sell-by date British English (=a date on a food product after which it should not be sold)
Those yoghurts are a week past their sell-by date.
■ verbs
▪ decide on a date (=choose the date when something will happen)
Have you decided on a date for the wedding yet?
▪ set/fix a date (=decide the date when something will happen)
They haven’t set a date for the election yet.
■ phrases
▪ today’s date
Don’t forget to put today’s date at the top of the letter.
▪ sb’s date of birth ( also sb’s birth date ) (=the day and year when someone was born)
What’s your date of birth?
▪ the date of publication/issue/departure etc formal
The insurance will only cover costs incurred on or after the date of departure.
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THESAURUS
▪ meeting an occasion when people meet in order to discuss something:
a business meeting.
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Mr Bell is in a meeting.
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The committee will hold another meeting Wednesday.
▪ conference an organized event, especially one that continues for several days, at which a lot of people meet to discuss a particular subject and hear speeches about it:
Didn’t you give a talk at the conference last year?
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a conference of women business leaders
▪ convention a large formal meeting of people who belong to a political party, or to an organization of people with the same interests:
the Democratic Party Convention
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a convention for Star Trek fans
▪ rally a large public meeting, especially one that is held outdoors to support or protest about something:
There was a massive peace rally in London.
▪ summit a meeting between government leaders from important and powerful countries, to discuss important matters:
A summit meeting of OPEC leaders was called to find a solution to the oil crisis.
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next week’s economic summit
▪ caucus American English a local meeting of the members of a political party to choose people to represent them at a larger meeting, or to choose a candidate in an election:
Obama won the Iowa caucus in 2007.
▪ teleconference/video conference a business meeting in which people in different places talk to each other using telephones or video equipment:
The chairman held teleconferences with his senior managers.
▪ gathering/get-together a situation in which a group of people come together to meet, talk, and have drinks with each other, especially friends or family:
We held a small family get-together to celebrate her birthday.
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She arranged social gatherings in Kettering for young people on Saturday evenings.
▪ date an arrangement to meet someone who you are having, or hoping to have, a romantic relationship with:
I think I might ask her out on a date.
▪ rendezvous a meeting where two people have arranged to meet at a particular time or place, often secretly:
She arranged a rendezvous with him in the hotel bar.
▪ tryst literary a secret meeting between people who are having a romantic relationship:
a good place for a moonlight tryst
II. date 2 S3 W3 BrE AmE verb
[ Word Family: verb : ↑ date , ↑ predate ; adjective : ↑ dated , ↑ outdated ; noun : ↑ date ]
1 . WRITE DATE [transitive] to write or print the date on something:
a newspaper dated November 23, 1963
Make sure you sign and date it at the bottom.
2 . FIND AGE [transitive] to find out when something old was made or formed:
The rocks are dated by examining the fossils found in the same layer.
radiocarbon dating
3 . OLD-FASHIONED [intransitive] if clothing, art etc dates, it begins to look old-fashioned:
His designs are so classic, they’ve hardly dated at all.
⇨ ↑ dated
4 . RELATIONSHIP [intransitive and transitive] American English to have a romantic relationship with someone SYN go out with :
Is he still dating Sarah?
Are Chris and Liz dating?
5 . SHOW SB’S AGE [transitive] if something that you say, do, or wear dates you, it shows that you are fairly old:
Yes, I remember the moon landings – that dates me, doesn’t it?
date from something ( also date back to something ) phrasal verb
to have existed since a particular time in the past:
The church dates from the 13th century.