to date

1. 1.

   prior to the present time

   “no suspect has been found to date”

   Synonymsup to now

Questions about to date

What does to date mean?

to date means "prior to the present time".

What is another word for to date?

Close synonyms include up to now. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is to date a common word?

to 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.