Dated Meaning
/ˈdeɪtɪd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjMarked with a date.
"The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922."
adjOutdated.
""Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus."
adjAnachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
"Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else."
"[She] changed the subject to Sex and the City reruns and how hopelessly dated they seem. “Miranda meets Steve at a bar,” she said, in a tone suggesting that the scenario might as well be out of a Jane Austen novel, for all the relevance it had to her life."— 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:
adjNo longer fashionable.
"Slang can become dated very quickly."
adjAlotted a span of days.
"Then ſtrike vp Drum, and al the ſtarres that make
The loathſome Circle of my dated life,
Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart,
That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods,
And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea."— c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
verbsimple past and past participle of date
Sentence Examples
Here is our answer to your fax message dated April 1st.
The statue is dated 1920.
Thank you for your letter dated 24th March.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His suit looked ____, like from the 1980s.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Here is our answer to your fax message ____ April 1st.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His suit looked ____, like from the 1980s.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Here is our answer to your fax message ____ April 1st.