datenoun [ C ]
uk/deɪt/us/deɪt/date noun [ C ] (DAY)
A1 a numbered day in a month, often given with a combination of the name of the day, the month, and the year:
a particular year:
a month and a year:
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- We've written to him asking him if he's free on that date but we haven't had an answer yet.
- As the date of his operation drew near, he became more and more anxious.
- If necessary, we can always change the dates of our trip.
- Do you know the date of Caroline and Matthew's wedding?
- Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
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Days & times of day
- afternoon
- afternoons
- am
- at the crack of dawn idiom
- bedtime
- circadian
- crepuscular
- in the dead of night/winter idiom
- last orders
- lighting-up time
- local time
- lunch hour
- night
- o'clock
- office hours
- opening time
- overnight
- playtime
- twilit
- watershed
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date noun [ C ] (MEETING)
B1 a social meeting planned before it happens, especially one between two people who have or might have a romantic relationship:
mainly US a person you have a romantic meeting with:
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- We went out on a date.
- I've got a date with someone from work tonight.
- I know she's going to the cinema with him tonight but I don't know if it's a date as such.
- I went there on a date with a boy I used to know.
- So who's your date tonight?
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Meeting people
- appointment
- conclave
- cross
- cross sb's path/cross paths with sb idiom
- deal
- gathering
- hello
- hook
- hook up
- how are things (with you)? idiom
- how do you do? idiom
- it's a date idiom
- known
- make yourself known idiom
- massed
- meeting point
- muster point
- remember sb to sb
- run across sb
- tryst
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date noun [ C ] (PERFORMANCE)
a performance:
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Spectacles & performances
- amateur dramatics
- amateur theater
- barnstorm
- bullfight
- co-production
- command performance
- curtain-raiser
- double bill
- mano a mano
- performance
- performance art
- premiere
- Punch and Judy show
- pyrotechnics
- spot
- tableau
- talent contest
- tattoo
- theatricals
- variety
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date noun [ C ] (FRUIT)
C1 the sweet fruit of various types of palm tree
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Types of fruit
- angelica
- apple
- avocado
- açaí
- banana
- cumquat
- currant
- damson
- dried fruit
- durian
- mango
- maraschino cherry
- melon
- mulberry
- navel orange
- satsuma
- satsuma plum
- sloe
- soft fruit
- starfruit
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Idiom(s)
dateverb
uk/deɪt/us/deɪt/date verb (TIME)
B1 [ T ] to write the day's date on something you have written or made:
[ T ] to say how long something has existed or when it was made:
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- The TV programme shows archaeologists using the latest technology to date things they have found.
- Your cheque should be dated before or on the day the bill is due.
- When they lifted the carpet, they found a newspaper dated 5 August 1952.
- The portrait is signed and dated 1893.
- The painting, dated 1928, is expected to fetch up to £250,000.
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Writing & typing
- asterisk
- borrow
- chalk
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write sth up
- written
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date verb (MEET)
B1 [ I or T ] mainly US to regularly spend time with someone you have a romantic relationship with:
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- She dated a string of actors before she met her first husband.
- She became famous when she started dating one of the country's top football stars.
- Would you date a man ten years younger than yourself?
- Their parents didn't approve of their relationship so they had to date in secret.
- The two of them dated for a while, but it didn't work out.
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Relationships: finding a partner
- a heavy date idiom
- be on the pull idiom
- chase
- computer dating
- court
- courtship
- go back to sb
- hook up
- internet dating
- lonely
- lonely hearts idiom
- lucky
- match
- online dating
- pin
- pursue
- singles bar
- speed dating
- together
- woo
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date verb (SHOW AGE)
[ I ] to stop being fashionable or become old-fashioned:
[ T ] to show the age of a person or thing:
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Old or old-fashioned
- a thing of the past idiom
- age-old
- ageing
- aging
- ancient
- feel your age idiom
- fossilized
- frumpy
- fusty
- have had its/your day idiom
- hoary
- neanderthal
- oldish
- out of date
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- used
- vintage
- went out with the ark idiom
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