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Definitions for Dating

[1] a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
[2] the day of the month: Is today's date the 7th or the 8th?
[3] an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.: a letter bearing the date January 16.
[4] the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general: at a late date.
[5] the time during which anything lasts; duration: The pity is that childhood has so short a date.
[6] an appointment for a particular time: They have a date with their accountant at ten o'clock.
[7] a social appointment or engagement arranged beforehand with another person, especially when a romantic relationship exists or may develop: to go out on a Saturday night date.
[8] a person with whom one has such a social appointment or engagement: Can I bring a date to the party?
[9] an engagement for an entertainer to perform.
[10] dates, the birth and death dates, usually in years, of a person: Dante's dates are 1265 to 1321.
[11] to have or bear a date: The letter dates from 1873.
[12] to belong to a particular period; have its origin: That dress dates from the 19th century. The architecture dates as far back as 1830.
[13] to reckon from some point in time: The custom dates from the days when women wore longer skirts.
[14] to go out socially on dates: She dated a lot during high school.
[15] to mark or furnish with a date: Please date the check as of today.
[16] to ascertain or fix the period or point in time of; assign a period or point in time to: The archaeologist dated the ruins as belonging to the early Minoan period.
[17] to show the age of; show to be old-fashioned.
[18] to make a date with; go out on dates with: He's been dating his best friend's sister.
[19] to date , up to the present time; until now: This is his best book to date.
[20] up to date , in agreement with or inclusive of the latest information; modern: Bring us up to date on the news.
[21] any of several techniques, such as radioactive dating, dendrochronology, or varve dating, for establishing the age of rocks, palaeontological or archaeological specimens, etc
[22] a specified day of the month today's date is October 27
[23] the particular day or year of an event the date of the Norman Conquest was 1066
[24] (plural) the years of a person's birth and death or of the beginning and end of an event or period
[25] an inscription on a coin, letter, etc, stating when it was made or written
[26] an appointment for a particular time, esp with a person to whom one is sexually or romantically attached she has a dinner date the person with whom the appointment is made
[27] the present moment; now (esp in the phrases to date, up to date )
[28] (tr) to mark (a letter, coin, etc) with the day, month, or year
[29] (tr) to assign a date of occurrence or creation to
[30] (intr; foll by from or back to) to have originated (at a specified time) his decline dates from last summer
[31] (tr) to reveal the age of that dress dates her
[32] to make or become old-fashioned some good films hardly date at all
[33] informal , mainly US and Canadian to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone of the opposite sex) to accompany (a member of the opposite sex) on a date
[34] the fruit of the date palm, having sweet edible flesh and a single large woody seed
[35] short for date palm

Words related to Dating

dateregister, determine, mark, see, record, fix, isolate, chronicle, measure, woo, court, attend, escort, obsolesce, archaize, antiquate, carbon-date, obsolete, outdate

Words nearby Dating

datedataflow architecture, datal, datary, dataveillance, datcha, date, date boil, date mussel, date night, date of record, date palm

Origin of Dating

e11275–1325; (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); (v.) Middle English daten to sign or date a document, derivative of the noun

Other words from Dating

dat·a·ble , date·a·ble , adjective
dat·a·ble·ness , date·a·ble·ness , noun
dat·er , noun
un·dat·a·ble , adjective
un·date·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Dating

eC13: from Old French, from Latin, from Greek daktulos finger

Synonyms for Dating

belong to, come from, determine, mark, register, chronicle, fix, isolate, measure, record, affix a date to, carbon-date, exist from, fix the date of, originate in, put in its place