Definition/Meaning of date

• English - Noun: date (plural dates) 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. We made a nice cake from dates . The date palm . There were a few dates planted around the house. (Australia, New Zealand) The anus . 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 88:…
• English - Verb: date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated) (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter 1699, Joseph Addison, Letter to Rt. Hon. Charles Montagu, Esq., Blois, France; republished in Lucy Aikin, chapter 3,…
• English - Anagrams: AEDT , EDTA , TAED
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /deɪt/ Rhymes: -eɪt