Dictionary Entry
date
date is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
- 2noun
That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
- 3noun
The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
- 4noun
Assigned end; conclusion.
- 5noun
Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
- 6transitive verb
To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
- 7transitive verb
To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
- 8intransitive verb
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
- 9noun
sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- 10noun
a meeting arranged in advance
"she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
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- 11noun
a participant in a date
"his date never stopped talking"
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- 12noun
the present
"they are up to date"
"we haven't heard from them to date"
- 13noun
the specified day of the month
"what is the date today?"
- 14noun
a particular day specified as the time something happens
"the date of the election is set by law"
- 15noun
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"
- 16noun
a particular but unspecified point in time
"they hoped to get together at an early date"
- 17verb
assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
"Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
- 18verb
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"
- 19verb
stamp with a date
"The package is dated November 24"
- 20verb
go on a date with
"Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
- 21verb
date regularly; have a steady relationship with
"Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"
"He is dating his former wife again!"
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