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Dated

/ˈdeɪtɪd/

To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

📖 Definitions of "Dated"

verb
  1. 1

    To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

    "to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter"

  2. 2

    To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.

  3. 3

    To determine the age of something.

    "to date the building of the pyramids"

  4. 4

    To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.

adjective
  1. 1

    Marked with a date.

    "The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922."

  2. 2

    Outdated.

    ""Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus."

  3. 3

    Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.

    "Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else."

  4. 4

    No longer fashionable.

    "Slang can become dated very quickly."

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