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      date
      noun
      A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
      A pre-arranged meeting.
      One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
      A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
      The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
      A point in time.
      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.
      The date palm.
      (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
      A surname.
      A ghost town in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
      (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
      (obsolete) A given or assigned length of life; duration.
      verb
      (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
      (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
      (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
      (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
      (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
      (transitive) To determine the age of something.
      (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
      (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
      Roots
      datusdate- · Latin · given (as in a letter 'given' on a certain day)
      Synonyms for date
      appointmentnbackdatevdatelinenassignationntrystnrendezvousnoutdatevengagementntimen
      Words related to date
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