Date I Deɪt Extra Examples Building Time Meeting

• ‘what's the date today?’ ‘the 10th.’
• write today's date at the top of the page.
• they haven't set a date for the wedding yet.
• we need to fix a date for the next meeting.

date

1. a particular day of the month, sometimes in a particular year, given in numbers and words
• SEE ALSO best-before date
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/best-before-date
• ‘What's the date today?’ ‘The 10th.’
• Write today's date at the top of the page.
• They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.
• We need to fix a date for the next meeting.
• I can't come on that date.
• Please give your name, address and date of birth.
• name, address and birth date
• There's no word yet on a UK release date for the film.
• a start/launch/completion date
• There's no date on this letter.
• Anyone who knows of the vehicle’s whereabouts from that date until 31 October is asked to contact Bangor police station.

Extra Examples

• Give me a couple of dates that are good for you.
• I can't give you specific dates.
• I have two meetings on that date.
• She suggested an earlier date for the meeting.
• The baby was born exactly on its due date.
• The agreement runs from that date.
• The building was not finished by the completion date.
• The closing date for applications is May 22.
• the date of the election
• We cannot accept applications received after this date.
• A trial date is expected to be announced next month.
2. a particular day or year when a particular event happened or will happen
• 1066 is the most famous date in English history.
• the biggest date in the country music calendar
• I hated history at school—I could never remember all those dates.
• What were Beethoven's dates (= the years of his birth and death)?

Extra Examples

• What was the date of the Battle of Hastings?
• The painting bears the date 1626.
• Historians disagree on the cut-off date for the medieval period.
• It's difficult to put a date on when the idea started.
• A large carved stone gives the dates of birth and death of her three sons.
3. a time in the past or future that is not a particular day
• The details can be added at a later date.
• The work will be carried out at a future date.
• This was an important trade route from an early date.
• a building of late Roman date

Extra Examples

• The election is scheduled to take place at an unspecified date in the autumn.
• The building has certain features in common with cathedrals of a similar date.
• The foundations are Roman, but the rest of the building is of more recent date.
4. an arrangement to meet somebody at a particular time
• SEE ALSO play date
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/play-date
• Call me next week and we'll try and make a date.
• Next Friday? Fine—it's a date!

Extra Examples

• We must make a date to have lunch.
• She wanted to arrive in time to keep her date.
• He was late, and ended up breaking their dinner date.
5. a meeting that you have arranged with a boyfriend or girlfriend or with somebody who might become a boyfriend or girlfriend
• SEE ALSO blind date
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/blind-date_1
• I've got a date with Lucy tomorrow night.
• We agreed to go out on a date.
• Do you think I should ask him out on a date?
• Paul's not coming. He's got a hot date (= an exciting one).
• She's out on a date with her new boyfriend.
• I have a date with Camilla on Friday night.
• It's a great date movie.
6. a boyfriend or girlfriend with whom you have arranged a date
• My date is meeting me at seven.
• I need to find a date for Friday.
7. a sweet sticky brown fruit that grows on a tree called a date palm, common in North Africa and West Asia
8. until now
• To date, we have received over 200 replies.
• The exhibition contains some of his best work to date.

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 5 Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin data, feminine past participle of dare ‘give’; from the Latin formula used in dating letters, data (epistola) ‘(letter) given or delivered’, to record a particular time or place. noun sense 6 Middle English: from Old French, via Latin from Greek daktulos ‘finger’ (because of the finger-like shape of its leaves).