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Definition of Ask out
1. Verb. Make a date. "Has he asked you out yet?"
Definition of Ask out
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To invite somebody, especially on a date. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ask Out
Literary usage of Ask out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1901)
"... it was told me that at 'his time of your marriage ye would give any man the
gift that he would ask out, except that were unreasonable. ..."
2. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock (1853)
"We ask we know not what, because we ask out of ignorance. God grants what he
knows, what is fit for him to do, and fit for us to receive ; and the exact ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Ask OUT mistress herself, the old woman; no one in the world knows more than she.
Do you think she wants to swim, and let the water close above her head ? ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The Lat. erogare — to lay out, expend money (lit. to ask out, require). See Super-,
E-, and Rogation. SUPEREXCELLENT, very excellent. ..."
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