Definition of date:
(n) :
the
fruit of the
date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an
olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel; the
date palm itself
"and bonds without a date, they say, are void. -
Dryden"
(v) :
to note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter; to note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids
"note: We may say dated at or from a place."