date
Definitions
A particular day, month, or year, especially a numbered point in the calendar
日期，日子
A social or romantic meeting arranged in advance; the person one meets
约会；约会对象
To mark with a date; to determine the age of something
注明日期；确定…的年代
To go out with someone romantically
与…约会，谈恋爱
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedFrom Latin data (Romae) — 'given (at Rome)' — the phrase that opened a Roman letter, recording the day it was handed to the courier. That first word, data, came to mean the day itself. So a date is literally 'the given day.' The romantic sense ('a date') is a much later English extension: a meeting given a fixed day.
Root dit still carries 69 more wordsCommon Collocations
- 1.release date发布日期
- 2.due date截止日期
- 3.up to date最新的
- 4.out of date过时的
- 5.go on a date去约会
Example Sentences
- 1.
What's the date of the meeting next week?
- 2.
They went on their first date at a small coffee shop.
- 3.
Scientists can date the rock by measuring its radioactive decay.
- 4.
She's been dating him for almost two years now.