dateable Definition

date¹
noun

1. The day of the month and/or the year, recorded by a number or series of numbers.
2. A statement on a letter, document, etc giving usually the day, the month and the year when it was written, sent, etc.
3. A particular period of time in history.

Example: costumes of an earlier date
Thesaurus: time, point in time, age, era, epoch, period, stage.
4. colloq
A planned meeting or social outing, usually with a person one is attached to.
Thesaurus: tryst, rendezvous; engagement, appointment, meeting.
(especially N Amer)
5. colloq
A person whom one is meeting or going out with and who one usually finds attractive.
6. colloq
An agreed time and place of performance.

verb dated, dating

1. To put a date on something.
2. To find, decide on or guess the date of something.
3. To show the age of someone or something; to make (especially a person) seem old.
intr
4. To become old-fashioned.
tr & intr
5. colloq
To go out with someone, especially to do so regularly.
Thesaurus: escort, accompany, attend, take out, keep company (with), consort with, go (out) with; go together, go steady.

Derivative: datable
adj

Derivative: dated
adj

Old-fashioned.
Thesaurus: outdated, obsolete, outmoded, out-of-date, old-fashioned, passé, démodé, archaic, antiquated, obsolescent, out, superseded; Antonym: fashionable, up-to-the-minute.

Idiom: out of date

See under out.

Idiom: to date

Up to the present time.
Thesaurus: until now, as yet, so far.

Idiom: up to date

See separate entry.

Etymology: 15c: French, from Latin datum given.

Phrasal Verb: date back to or from (a specified time)

To have begun or originated then.