Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked with or displaying a date.
  • adjective Old-fashioned; out-of-date.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
  • adjective bearing a date.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Marked with a date.
  • adjective Out of date.
  • adjective Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
  • adjective No longer fashionable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

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Examples

  • I may have dated boys here and there for short periods of times… but we just dated… and we both would go into the scenario that we were just dating, having fun, whatever… but a “Relationship” … that’s a whole other ball game kids…

    ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002

  • The term dated back at least to Black nationalist Malcolm X, who favored African American as more historically and culturally defining over other terms, and used it at an OAAU (Organization of Afro American Unity) meeting in the mid-1960s, saying, "Twenty-two million African Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America."

    Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Black's Fine, Thanks: Writer Deborah Dickerson Pulls the Obama Race Card 2008

  • It was commonly believed that the word dated from the French occupation of Mexico (1862-1866).

    A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997

  • It was commonly believed that the word dated from the French occupation of Mexico (1862-1866).

    A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997

  • I also saw, in the lumber-room, a number of packing-cases -- one with a label dated two days back -- which had been opened with an iron lever; and yet, when I made an excuse to ask for it, you said there was no such thing in the place.

    Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • I had heard he'd been killed shortly after graduating from high school in a knife fight at the last remaining whorehouse in our little hometown in Missouri, whose red light district dated from the 1860′s when Scott Joplin played ragtime for cowboys with money to burn after they'd been paid for driving cattle up from Texas on the Chisolm Trail.

    Stimulating the Dead Con Chapman 2010

  • Their Tea Party is an all too familiar variant on Republican's long-time, poisonous, nativist strain easily carbon dated from the "Know Nothing" party that swelled their ranks 150 years ago.

    Paula Gordon: Rule AND Ruin Paula Gordon 2010

  • It was enough of a clue: even though the recordings originally issued on the Okeh label dated from 1928, Hoskins had a hunch that Hurt might still be alive, and headed to Mississippi.

    Blues greats re-emerge from the pages of history 2011

  • Our previous house dated from the mid-60s, and the wiring was not done by drugged gibbons (well, not that we know of) ... but by * stupid* gibbons.

    mrissa: The basement finishing project is at a s mrissa 2010

  • In a recent episode, the character Chris Griffin dated a girl with Down Syndrome.

    Think Progress » Palin attacks Family Guy’s ‘satire’ after excusing Limbaugh’s. 2010

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