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say it: dayt
date is a noun and verb meaning "the specified day of the month". It is pronounced /ˈdeɪt/ — dayt. It carries 12 recorded senses.
the specified day of the month
“what is the date today?”
a participant in a date
“his date never stopped talking”
a meeting arranged in advance
“she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date”
the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
“he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class”
a particular day specified as the time something happens
“the date of the election is set by law”
“we hope to get together at an early date”
“Mother's Day is always on the same date”
sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
go on a date with
“Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart”
assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
“Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for date come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.