date

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.
2. n. A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
3. n. A specified day of a month.
4. n. A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen.
5. n. The years of someone's birth and death: Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
6. n. The time during which something lasts; duration.
7. n. The time or historical period to which something belongs: artifacts of a later date.
8. n. An appointment: a luncheon date with a client; a date with destiny. See Synonyms at engagement.
9. n. An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
10. n. One's companion on such an outing.
11. n. An engagement for a performance: has four singing dates this month.
12. v. To mark or supply with a date: date a letter.
13. v. To determine the date of: date a fossil.
14. v. To betray the age of: Pictures of old cars date the book.
15. v. To go on a date or dates with.
16. v. To have origin in a particular time in the past: This statue dates from 500 B.C.
17. v. To become old-fashioned.
18. v. To go on dates.
19. idiom. out of date No longer in style; old-fashioned: clothes that went out of date last year.
20. idiom. to date Until now: To date, only half of those invited have responded.
21. idiom. up to date In or into accordance with current information, styles, or technology: brought me up to date on the project's status.
22. n. The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.
23. n. A date palm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That part of a writing or an inscription which purports to specify the time when, and usually the place where, it was executed. A full date includes the place, day, month, and year; but in some cases the date may consist of only one or two of these particulars, as the year on a coin. In letters the date is inserted to indicate the time when they are written or sent; in deeds, contracts, wills, and other papers, to indicate the time of execution, and usually the time from which they are to take effect on the rights of the parties; but the written date does not exclude evidence of the real time of execution or delivery, and consequent taking effect. In documents the date is usually placed at the end, but may be at the beginning, as it is now generally in letters.
2. n. The time, with more or less particularity, when some event has happened or is to happen: as, the date of a battle; the dates of birth and death on a monument; the date of Easter varies from year to year, or is variable.
3. n. Point or period of time in general: as, at that early date.
4. n. A season or allotted period of time.
5. n. Age; number of years.
6. n. Duration; continuance.
7. n. End; conclusion.
8. n. A day-book, journal, or diary.
9. n. For secret meetings, especially for an immoral purpose; make assignations.
10. To mark with a date, as a letter or other writing. See date, n.
11. To note or fix the time of, as of an event or transaction; assign a date or time of occurrence to: as, to date an event in ancient history.
12. To have a date: as, the letter dates from Rome. See I.
13. To have beginning; derive origin.
14. To use a date in reckoning; reckon from some point in time.
15. n. A grant; concession; gift.
16. n. The fruit of the date-palm, Phœnix dactylifera, used extensively as an article of food by the natives of northern Africa and of some countries of Asia. It is an oblong drupe, which contains a single seed, consisting of a hard horny albumen deeply grooved on one side. See date-palm.
17. n. An occasional name in California of the fanleaf palm, Neowashingtonia filamentosa.

Wiktionary

1. n. The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
2. n. The date palm itself.
3. n. 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.
4. n. 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. A specific day.
5. n. A point in time
6. n. rare Assigned end; conclusion.
7. n. obsolete Given or assigned length of life; duration.
8. n. A pre-arranged social meeting.
9. n. A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
10. n. A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
11. v. transitive To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
12. v. transitive To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
13. v. transitive To determine the age of something.
14. v. transitive To take (someone) on a series of dates.
15. v. transitive to have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with
16. v. intransitive of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship
17. v. intransitive To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
18. v. intransitive To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
2. n. 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. etc.
3. n. The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch.
4. n. rare Assigned end; conclusion.
5. n. obsolete Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
6. v. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
7. v. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
8. v. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a meeting arranged in advance
2. n. a particular but unspecified point in time
3. v. go on a date with
4. n. a participant in a date
5. v. assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
6. n. the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
7. v. stamp with a date
8. n. the present
9. n. a particular day specified as the time something happens
10. n. sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
11. n. the specified day of the month
12. v. date regularly; have a steady relationship with
13. v. provide with a dateline; mark with a date