1. noun /deɪt/
a) The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
b) The date palm itself.
2. verb /deɪt/
a) 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
The letter is dated at Philadephia. - G. T. Curtis
b) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
You will be surprised, I dont question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. -
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