Definition of date

"date" in the noun sense

1. date, day of the month

the specified day of the month

"what is the date today?"

2. date, escort

a participant in a date

"his date never stopped talking"

3. date, appointment, engagement

a meeting arranged in advance

"she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

4. date

the present

"they are up to date"

"we haven't heard from them to date"

5. date

the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred

"he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class"

6. date

a particular day specified as the time something happens

"the date of the election is set by law"

"we hope to get together at an early date"

"Mother's Day is always on the same date"

7. date

sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

"date" in the verb sense

1. date

go on a date with

"Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"

2. date, date stamp

stamp with a date

"The package is dated November 24"

3. date

assign a date to determine the (probable) date of

"Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"

4. go steady, go out, date, see

date regularly have a steady relationship with

"Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"

"He is dating his former wife again!"

5. date

provide with a dateline mark with a date

"She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"

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Quotations for date

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

Short is my date, but deathless my renown. [ Homer ]

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. [ Milton ]

We extol what is old, regardless of what is of modern date. [ Tac ]

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]

The inventions dictated by necessity are of the earlier date than those of pleasure. [ Cicero ]

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. [ J. G. Holland ]

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. [ Colton ]

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance, but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date, and beside, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker, otherwise no one believes in her. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times, Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. [ Emerson ]

date in Scrabble®

The word date is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters date:

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date in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters date:

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Words containing the sequence date

Words with date in them (158 words)

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