1. Or: make a date , from the early 1900s onward, to make an appointment to meet someone at a specific time and place for romantic involvement.
2. A person with whom one has an engagement or rendezvous.
3. A person one sees socially. To go around with means to date someone casually; to go out with means to date that person seriously (or regularly); to go steady with , means to date only that person (to be committed to that person); to go with , means to have sexual intercourse with someone.
(1) Barney (Frank McHugh) in All Through the Night (1942): ' I've got a date with a doll.'
(2) Dixie Daisy (Barbara Stanwyck) in Lady of Burlesque (1943): ' When I dress for a date with you, it will be a suit of armor and brass knuckles.'
(3) Harris B. Telemaker (Steve Martin) to Sarah MacDowell (Victoria Tennant) in L.A. Story (1991) explaining the difference between a date and doing something with somebody: ' Not a date, a do.'
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