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  1. noun Time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.
  2. noun A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
  3. noun A specified day of a month.
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  • “So how come you never came up to see me Because I couldn't raise the money.” Making a time jump for a date was the sort of luxury only the insanely rich indulged in, but I'd tried to see if I could swing it. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • Right now, the Header for the date is appearing, but nothing after. —  ASP.NET Forums
  • Atlanta Braves 9 / 9 / 08 Bobby Cox - This date is a makeup from a rainout earlier in the season. —  Bus Leagues Baseball
  • But now in iPhoto, their date is the incorrect 2009 date, and every picture I take this year will come before them! —  MacInTouch
  • Kevin Clarkson, a lawyer for five GOP lawmakers who filed suit in September, said the date was arbitrarily chosen by the lawmakers overseeing the investigation. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin data, from Latin data (Romae), issued (at Rome) (on a certain day), feminine past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal datil, from Latin dactylus, from Greek daktulos, finger, date (from its shape).

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  1. from Middle English date, from Old French date, French date = Spanish Portuguese Italian data, from Middle Latin data, feminine, also datum, neuter (later D. G. Danish Swedish datum), date, note of time and place, so called from Latin datum, given, the first word of the customary note in letters or documents giving the place and time of writing or issue, as datum Romœ, given at Rome (on such a day); feminine or neuter of Latin datus, given (= Greek δοτός), past participle of dare = Greek διδόναι, 2d aorist δοῦναι (δίδωμι, I give) = Old Bulgarian datiˇ = Slov. Servian dati = Polish dac = Russian dati, davatiˇ = Lithuanian duti = Lettish dōt = Sanskrit √ dā, give (dadāmi, I give). From Latin dare, past participle datus, come also English date, datum, dado, and die (doublets of date), datary, dation, dative, and from the same root (from Latin donare) donate, donative, condone, etc.
  2. = French dater = Spanish Portuguese datar = Italian datare, from Middle Latin datare, note the date, from data, datum, date: see date, n.
  3. from Middle English date, dat = Spanish dado, masculine, = Portuguese dada, feminine, = Italian dato, masculine, from Latin datum (= Greek δοτόν), neuter, usually in plural, also data, feminine, a grant, allowance, gift, tribute, literally a thing given, neuter and feminine of L. datus, given: see date, and datum, of which date is a doublet.
  4. from Middle English date, from Old French date, also datil, datille, French datte = Provencal datil, dactil = Spanish dátil = Portuguese datile = Italian dattilo, dattero (cf. Dutch dadel = German dattel = Danish daddel = Swedish dadel, from Old French or Italian) = Polish Bohemian daktyl, from Latin dactylus (New Latin also, after Roman, datalus), from Greek δάκτυλος, a date, so called from its shape, literally a finger, also a dactyl: see dactyl, a doublet of date.
 

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