Collins English-English Dictionary

date [deɪt]

1. 1. n a specified day of the month

   today's date is October 27

2. 2. n the particular day or year of an event

   the date of the Norman Conquest was 1066

3. 3. n [plural] the years of a person's birth and death or of the beginning and end of an event or period

4. 4. n an inscription on a coin, letter, etc, stating when it was made or written

5. 5. n an appointment for a particular time, esp with a person to whom one is sexually or romantically attached

   she has a dinner date

6. 6. n the person with whom the appointment is made

7. 7. n the present moment; now (esp in the phrases to date, up to date)

8. 8. vt. [tr] to mark (a letter, coin, etc) with the day, month, or year

9. 9. vt. [tr] to assign a date of occurrence or creation to

10. 10. vi. [intr; foll by from or back to] to have originated (at a specified time)

    his decline dates from last summer

11. 11. vt. [tr] to reveal the age of

    that dress dates her

12. 12. vt. to make or become old-fashioned

    some good films hardly date at all

13. 13. vt. [informal] [chiefly US and Canadian] to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone of the opposite sex)

14. 14. vt. to accompany (a member of the opposite sex) on a date

15. 15. vt. [Etymology] C14: from Old French, from Latin dare to give, as in the phrase epistula data Romae letter handed over at Rome

date [deɪt]

1. 1. n the fruit of the date palm, having sweet edible flesh and a single large woody seed

2. 2. n short for date palm

3. 3. n [Etymology] C13: from Old French, from Latin, from Greek daktulos finger