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online date

noun

Etymology

Back-formation from online dating.

  1. derived from דֶּקֶל — “date palm”
  2. derived from دَقَل — “variety of date palm”
  3. derived from δάκτυλος — “finger”
  4. derived from datil
  5. derived from dactylus
  6. derived from date
  7. inherited from date
  8. compounded as online date — “online + date”

Definitions

  1. A date over the Internet.

    • We had arranged to see one another again on the Sunday but I never heard from him again. Well, that is until I met my now husband a few months after the online date.
    • It’s the succeeding part I’m having a little more trouble with. A job writing obituaries and one online date is not turning my life around.

  2. A person dated over the Internet.

    • I lost Nick and I don’t find Chinese men attractive. We used to make fun of this, but it’s not fun anymore. I want to go back to see my online date in London or find a former classmate to get married.
    • When he finished the phone call I quizzed him asking him about the person he’d mentioned on the phone. It turned out that my online date was a really good friend of his and had worked with him on a Channel 4 programme.
    • He then asked the prosecutors and the defense attorneys to stand up, and he introduced them to the court. Much to my surprise, up at the front, looking serious, there stood one of my past online dates—the handsome prosecutor.

  3. To date over the Internet.

    • The argument to online date was more convincing when I thought of my sister and her boyfriend and their perfect relationship.
    • So far, this book has been all about how to online date successfully.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for online date. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA