Definition of date

• n. - The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
• n. - That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
• n. - The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
• n. - Assigned end; conclusion.
• n. - Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
• v. t. - To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
• v. t. - To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
• v. i. - To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.