date

/deɪt/ verb

Definition

MEET [I, T] › to regularly spend time with someone you have a romantic relationship with: We've been dating for six months.

WRITE [T] › to write the day's date on something: a letter dated March 13th

TIME [T] › to say how long something has existed or when it was made: Scientists have dated the bones to 10,000 BC.

NOT MODERN [I, T] › to stop seeming modern, or to make something not seem modern: Clothes like these date really quickly.

(Definition of date verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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