{
    "term": "date",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/fr/fruit_misc.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a particular day of the month, sometimes in a particular year, given in numbers and words",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘What's the date today?’ ‘The 10th.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Write **today's date** at the top of the page."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They haven't **set a date** for the wedding yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to **fix a date** for the next meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't come on that date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please give your name, address and **date of birth**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "name, address and **birth date**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no word yet on a UK **release date **for the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a start/launch/completion date"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no date on this letter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Anyone who knows of the vehicle’s whereabouts from that date until 31 October is asked to contact Bangor police station."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Give me a couple of dates that are good for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't give you specific dates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have two meetings on that date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She suggested an earlier date for the meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The baby was born exactly on its due date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The agreement runs from that date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building was not finished by the completion date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The closing date for applications is May 22."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the date of the election"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We cannot accept applications received after this date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A trial date is expected to be announced next month."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time", "History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["earlier", "earliest", "later"],
                "verb + date": ["agree", "agree on", "arrange"],
                "date + noun": ["stamp", "book"],
                "preposition": ["after a/​the date", "at a… date", "before a/​the date"],
                "phrases": ["the big date", "at a future date", "at some future date"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a particular day or year when a particular event happened or will happen",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "1066 is the most famous date in English history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the biggest date in the country music calendar"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hated history at school—I could never remember all those dates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What were Beethoven's dates *(= the years of his birth and death)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What was the date of the Battle of Hastings?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The painting bears the date 1626."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Historians disagree on the cut-off date for the medieval period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's difficult to put a date on when the idea started."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A large carved stone gives the dates of birth and death of her three sons."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a time in the past or future that is not a particular day",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The details can be added **at a later date**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The work will be carried out **at a future date**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was an important trade route **from an early date**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a building of late Roman date"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The election is scheduled to take place at an unspecified date in the autumn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building has certain features in common with cathedrals of a similar date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The foundations are Roman, but the rest of the building is of more recent date."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["earlier", "earliest", "later"],
                "verb + date": ["agree", "agree on", "arrange"],
                "date + noun": ["stamp", "book"],
                "preposition": ["after a/​the date", "at a… date", "before a/​the date"],
                "phrases": ["the big date", "at a future date", "at some future date"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an arrangement to meet somebody at a particular time",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Call me next week and we'll try and **make a date**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Next Friday? Fine—it's a date!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We must make a date to have lunch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wanted to arrive in time to keep her date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was late, and ended up breaking their dinner date."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dinner", "lunch", "blind"],
                "verb + date": ["have", "find", "make"],
                "date + noun": ["movie", "rape"],
                "preposition": ["on a date", "date with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a meeting that you have arranged with a boyfriend or girlfriend or with somebody who might become a boyfriend or girlfriend",
            "sensetop": "a date with somebodyon a date",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've got a date with Lucy tomorrow night.",
                    "contextForm": "a date with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We agreed to go out on a date.",
                    "contextForm": "on a date"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you think I should ask him out on a date?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Paul's not coming. He's got a **hot date** *(= an exciting one)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's out on a date with her new boyfriend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a date with Camilla on Friday night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a great date movie."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dinner", "lunch", "blind"],
                "verb + date": ["have", "find", "make"],
                "date + noun": ["movie", "rape"],
                "preposition": ["on a date", "date with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a boyfriend or girlfriend that you have arranged a date with",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My date is meeting me at seven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need to find a date for Friday."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a sweet sticky brown fruit that grows on a tree called a date palm, common in North Africa and West Asia",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Food"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "until now",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "To date, we have received over 200 replies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The exhibition contains some of his best work to date."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/deɪt/",
                "audio": "da/date/date__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/deɪt/",
                "audio": "da/date/date__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 5 Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin data, feminine past participle of dare ‘give’; from the Latin formula used in dating letters, data (epistola) ‘(letter) given or delivered’, to record a particular time or place. noun sense 6 Middle English: from Old French, via Latin from Greek daktulos ‘finger’ (because of the finger-like shape of its leaves)."
}