date
French, noun
date is spelled D-A-T-E (4 letters) and appears 141 times per million words in written French, the 579th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Date is a French feminine noun meaning “date (point in time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of dater. With an accent, daté is a different word: “dated, outdated, out of fashion”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Indication du temps où une lettre a été écrite, où un acte a été passé, etc”.
What does date mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedate (point in time)
noun
- 1
feminineslangdate (romantic meeting)
noun
- 1
masculineslangdate (person you go on a romantic meeting with)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
dated, outdated, out of fashion
verb
- 1
past participle of dater
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Indication du temps où une lettre a été écrite, où un acte a été passé, etc. 2. Moment où un événement a eu lieu ou doit avoir lieu, indication de cette époque. 3. Indique la temporalité, dans le passé, sans plus de précision. 4. Lieu où un document a été produit.
noun: 1. Rencard, rendez-vous galant. 2. La personne avec qui l'on a un rencard, petit ami, petite amie.
adjective: 1. Ancien, vieilli, démodé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of date
- dates plural
- datée feminine
- datés masculine plural
- datées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to date
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is date in French?
date appears 141 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).