dated

adjective

  1. Provided with a date

    "a dated document"

  2. Outmoded, old-fashioned

    "dated formalities"

verb

  1. To determine the period of time to which something belongs to determine the date see date of

    "date an antique"

  2. To record the time of the execution or making of mark with the date

    "forgot to date the check"

  3. To mark with characteristics typical of a particular period
  4. To show up plainly the age of

    "old-fashioned decor that really dates the house"

  5. To make a usually romantic social arrangement to meet with to have a date with

    "someone she dated in high school"

  6. To estimate or compute a date see date or chronology to reckon chronologically

    "scientific dating techniques"

  7. Originate

    "a friendship dating from college days"

  8. To become outmoded or dated
  9. To go out on usually romantic dates

    "wasn't allowed to date until she was sixteen"

noun

  1. The determination of the age of old material (such as an archaeological or paleontological specimen) by means of the content of carbon 14

noun

  1. A date participated in by two couples

noun

  1. Carbon dating

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