How do you use the word "date" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "date" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "date": We will let you know the time and date of the meeting soon. The date and place of the meeting have been fixed.

Date Meaning

/deɪt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

nounThe date palm.

Sentence Examples

We will let you know the time and date of the meeting soon.

The date and place of the meeting have been fixed.

We need to confirm the exact date of the wedding.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

escort engagement

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please write today's ____ on the top of the form.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We will let you know the time and ____ of the meeting soon.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max." — 1996, Peter Doyle, Get Rich Quick:

"Black Superman could kiss his date, the little faggot." — 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 88:

"And bonds without a date, they say, are void." — 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

"He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest." — 1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II:

"But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted." — 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

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