Date

See also: Appendix:Variations of "date"

English

Etymology

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Marathi दाते (dāte), from Sanskrit दाता (dātā), nominative singular of दातृ (dātṛ, “giver, donor”).
• Borrowed from Japanese 伊達 (Date, “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”), a habitational surname.

Proper noun

Date (plural Dates)

1. A surname.
2. A ghost town in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Date is the 37735^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 589 individuals. Date is most common among White (43.46%), Asian/Pacific Islander (32.09%) and Black/African American (13.07%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Date”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 414.

Anagrams

• Daet, AEDT, TAED, Teda, tea'd, TA'ed, TAed, -ated, ated, tead, EDTA

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛɪ̯t/, /deːt/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Date

Noun

Date n (strong, genitive Dates, plural Dates)

1. (informal) date (romantic meeting)
   • 2011, “Das ist Business”, in Jenseits von Gut und Böse, performed by Bushido:

     Hab ein Date im Jacuzzi, mit dem Playmate von Juni / Ich pump Champagne so wie Schumi

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (informal) date (person with whom one has such a meeting)
   • 2025 September 28, Claudio Rizzello, “Sie finden Ihr Date plötzlich ekelig? So geht es auch anderen”, in Der Spiegel‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 November 2025:

     Sie finden Ihr Date plötzlich ekelig? So geht es auch anderen [title]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (informal, rather rare) date (non-romantic meeting)
   • 2015, “Date mit Dirk”, in Das Rote Album, performed by Tocotronic:

     Ich hab ein Date mit Dirk / Am ersten Frühlingstag / Ich hab ein Date mit Dirk / Ich will wissen ob er mich noch mag

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Date [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Date	die	Dates
genitive	eines	des	Dates	der	Dates
dative	einem	dem	Date	den	Dates
accusative	ein	das	Date	die	Dates

Synonyms

• (romantic meeting): Date; Verabredung; Rendezvous; Stelldichein (archaic)
• (person met): Verabredung
• (non-romantic meeting): Termin; Treffen; Verabredung

Related terms

• Dating

Further reading

• “Date”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Date” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Date” in Duden online
• Date on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Japanese

Romanization

Date

1. Rōmaji transcription of だて