blind date

1. 1.

   a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them)

   Broaderdate
2. 2.

   a date with a stranger

   “she never goes on blind dates”

   Broaderdate

Questions about blind date

What does blind date mean?

blind date means "a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is blind date a common word?

blind date is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.