date

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a meeting arranged in advance

   They asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date.

2. 2
   noun

   a participant in a date

   My date never stopped talking.

3. 3
   noun

   the present

   they are up to date

4. 4
   noun

   the specified day of the month

   what is the date today?

5. 5
   noun

   a particular day specified as the time something happens

   the date of the election is set by law

6. 6
   noun

   the particular day, month, or year that an event occurred

   We tried to memorize all the dates for our history class.

7. 7
   noun

   a particular but unspecified point in time

   they hoped to get together at an early date

8. 8
   verb

   assign a date to

   determine the (probable) date of

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.