Date
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Date or dates most often refers to:
Date, the fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
Jujube, also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba
Date or dates may also refer to:
Social activity
Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner
Group dating
First date
Blind date
Meeting, when two or more people come together
Chronology
Calendar date, a day on a calendar
Date (metadata), a representation term to specify a calendar date
DATE command, a system time command for displaying the current date
Chronological dating, attributing to an object or event a date in the past
Radiometric dating, dating materials such as rocks in which trace radioactive impurities were incorporated when they were formed
Arts, entertainment and media
Music
Date (band), a Swedish dansband
"Date" (song), 2009, from Mr.
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