Definitions for dates

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dates date

Spelling: [deyt]

IPA: /deɪt/

Dates is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in dates (adest).

Definitions for dates

noun

1. a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen:
2. the day of the month:
3. an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.:
4. the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general:
5. the time during which anything lasts; duration:
6. an appointment for a particular time:
7. a social appointment or engagement arranged beforehand with another person, especially when a romantic relationship exists or may develop:
8. a person with whom one has such a social appointment or engagement:
9. an engagement for an entertainer to perform.
10. dates, the birth and death dates, usually in years, of a person:
11. the oblong, fleshy fruit of the date palm, a staple food in northern Africa, Arabia, etc., and an important export.

Idioms

1. to date, up to the present time; until now:
2. up to date, in agreement with or inclusive of the latest information; modern:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or furnish with a date:
2. to ascertain or fix the period or point in time of; assign a period or point in time to:
3. to show the age of; show to be old-fashioned.
4. to make a date with; go out on dates with:

verb (used without object)

1. to have or bear a date:
2. to belong to a particular period; have its origin:
3. to reckon from some point in time:
4. to go out socially on dates:

Origin of dates

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English Middle French Late Latin data, noun use of data (feminine of datus, past participle of dare to give), from the phrase data (Romae) written, given (at Rome); (

Examples for dates

That morning, he sat in the windowsill and began his day like every other: reading the Bible passage that coincided with the date.

Lawrence gave the date as 1735; and Keightley suggested the spring of that year.

In my four years of college, I know exactly one woman who has asked a man out on a date.

Here was an offer which the company in an English inn at that or any other date are slow to refuse.

As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.

You'll be so good, my dear, as to remember, that the date of your last letter to me was the 9th.

I'll let you know the moment the date of the girls' weddings is set.

He also posted the results of the interactions that usually ended in frustration, but on rare successes, began with “date!”

Just a month from that date, he now no longer believes that to be realistic, and will no longer estimate a timeline for the trial.

This puts the date of the completion of the keep between 1146 and 1171.