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date

noun

1 the only dates he can remember are his birthday and 1066:

day, day of the month, occasion, year, anniversary, time.

2 a later date than the 15th century is suggested for this bridge:

age, time, period, era, epoch, century, decade, year, stage.

3 we have a lunch date:

appointment, meeting, engagement, rendezvous, assignation;

commitment, fixture;

literary tryst.

4 informal have you got a date for tonight?:

partner, escort, girlfriend, boyfriend, young lady, young man, woman friend, lady friend, man friend, man, boy, girl;

in Spanish-speaking regions querida;

informal steady, bird, fella.

□ to date

this is his best book to date:

so far, thus far, yet, as yet, up to now/then, till now/then, until now/then, as of now, up to the present (time), up to this/that point, hitherto;

rare thitherto.

▷antonyms since then; to come.

verb

1 this piece of sculpture can be dated very accurately:

assign a date to, establish/determine/ascertain the date of, put a date on/to, establish/determine/ascertain the age of, carbon-date.

2 the present building dates from the early 16th century | this law dates back to the Middle Ages:

was made in, was built in, was created in, came into being in, bears the date of, originates in, comes from, belongs to, goes back to, has existed since.

3 the very best films just don't date:

become old-fashioned, become outmoded, become obsolete, become dated, show its age.

4 informal he's dating the girl next door:

go out with, take out, go around with, go with, be involved with, be romantically linked with, see, court, woo;

informal go steady with;

North American, informal step out with;

Australian, informal track square with.

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date (1) Oxford Dictionary of English