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Another word for date

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Noun

  1. A commitment to appear at a certain time and place

      1. An agreement between lovers to meet at a certain time and place.
      2. A usually private meeting or meeting place that has been agreed on by lovers.
      3. To keep a tryst.
      1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place.
      2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
      3. A popular gathering place:
      1. The action of engaging or the state of being engaged:
      2. The condition of being in gear:
      3. A mutual promise to get married.
      1. The act of assigning:
      2. Something assigned, especially an allotment.
      3. An appointment to meet in secret, especially between lovers.
      1. The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.
      2. The office or position to which one has been appointed.
      3. An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place.
    See also:

    agree

Verb

  1. To be with another person socially on a regular basis

    See also:

    connect

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Another word for date

Noun

  1. A specified period of time

      1. A period of 100 years.
      2. Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era.
      3. A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men.
      1. One of the 24 equal parts of a day.
      2. One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight.
      3. The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.
      1. Exercise of sovereign power, as by a monarch.
      2. The period during which a monarch rules.
      3. Dominance or widespread influence:
      1. A period of time:
      2. The time, effort, or trouble taken in doing something:
      3. As long as; during the time that:
      1. A brief, indefinite interval of time.
      2. A specific point in time, especially the present time:
      3. A point in time that is gratifying or noteworthy:
      1. The extent or measure of space between two points or extremities, as of a bridge or roof; the breadth.
      2. The distance between the tips of the wings of an airplane.
      3. The section between two intermediate supports of a bridge.
      1. Continuance or persistence in time.
      2. A period of existence or persistence:
      3. The number of years required to receive the present value of future payments, both of interest and principle, of a bond, often used as an indicator of a bond's price volatility resulting from changes in interest rates.
      1. One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.
      2. The two divisions of the year, rainy and dry, in some tropical regions.
      3. A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, occupations, festivities, or crops:
      1. A period or term of three months.
      2. One of three terms into which an academic year is divided in some universities and colleges.
      1. One of four equal parts.
      2. A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.
      3. One fourth of an hour; 15 minutes.
      1. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year.
      1. To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).
      2. To constitute the letters of (a word):
      3. To add up to; signify:
      1. Development in a particular way; progress:
      2. Movement in time; duration:
      3. The direction of continuing movement:
      1. A limited or established period of time that something is supposed to last, as a school or court session, tenure in public office, or a prison sentence.
      2. A point in time at which something ends; termination:
      3. The end of a normal gestation period:
      1. The length of time that a person or thing has existed:
      2. The time of life when a person becomes qualified to assume certain civil and personal rights and responsibilities, usually at 18 or 21 years; legal age:
      3. One of the stages of life:
      1. The people born and living about the same time, considered as a group:
      2. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring:
      3. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor:
      1. A period of time as reckoned from a specific date serving as the basis of its chronological system.
      2. A period of time characterized by particular circumstances, events, or personages:
      3. The longest division of geologic time, made up of one or more periods.
      1. An interval of time characterized by the occurrence of a certain condition, event, or phenomenon:
      2. An interval of time characterized by the prevalence of a specified culture, ideology, or technology:
      3. An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental phase:
      1. A particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy.
      2. A unit of geologic time that is a division of a period.
      3. An instant in time that is arbitrarily selected as a point of reference for specification of celestial coordinates.
      1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
      2. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration:
      3. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval:
      1. The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days.
      2. A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars.
      3. A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year:
      1. The period of light between dawn and nightfall; the interval from sunrise to sunset.
      2. The 24-hour period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis, traditionally measured from midnight to midnight.
      3. The period during which a celestial body makes a similar rotation.
    See also:

    year

    time

    age

  2. *An appointment

      1. A date in which two couples participate.
      1. A social engagement between two persons who have not previously met, usually arranged by a mutual acquaintance.
      2. Either of the persons participating in such a social engagement.
      1. To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially:
      2. To go to see in order to aid or console:
      3. To stay with (someone) as a guest.
      1. To say in a loud voice; announce:
      2. To demand or ask for the presence of:
      3. To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke:
      1. A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.
      2. A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.
      3. An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.
      1. The action of engaging or the state of being engaged:
      2. The condition of being in gear:
      3. A mutual promise to get married.
      1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place.
      2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
      3. A popular gathering place:
      1. The act of assigning:
      2. Something assigned, especially an allotment.
      3. An appointment to meet in secret, especially between lovers.
      1. An agreement between lovers to meet at a certain time and place.
      2. A usually private meeting or meeting place that has been agreed on by lovers.
      3. To keep a tryst.
    See also:

    appointment

  3. Person with whom one has a date, sense 2

    See also:

    lover

    friend

    escort

Verb

  1. To indicate historical time

    See also:

    record

    measure

    define

    begin

  2. To court or be courted

    See also:

    accompany

Idioms:

    out-of-date

    2. to-date

    3. up-to-date

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Sentence Examples

  • "It's important to find out the date and place," she said.

  • Yancey was an attentive date, always knowing exactly what to say and do.

  • I have a date to get ready for.

  • If I do, I'll call you for that dinner date when I get back.

  • You have a date in mind you'd like to share?

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