Definition of Double-date

1. Verb. Go out on a date with a partner and another couple. "Let's double date this Saturday"

Generic synonyms: Date
Derivative terms: Double Date

Definition of Double-date

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of double date) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double-date

double-checked
double-checking
double-checks
double-chinned
double-click
double-clicked
double-clicking
double-clicks
double-count
double-cross
double-crossed
double-crosser
double-crossers
double-crosses
double-crossing
double-date (current term)
double-deal
double-dealer
double-dealers
double-dealing
double-deals
double-dealt
double-decker
double-decker bus
double-decker buses
double-deckers
double-declutch
double-digit
double-dip
double-dipped

Literary usage of Double-date

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1841)
"But there was an observable want of uniformity in the practice of our ancestor?, f~ p.-ri.illy those more remote, respecting the double date, while the use ..."

2. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1842)
"18th. at w'h people are generally sad.ls From the above specimens it appears not improbable, that the double date of the year was ..."

3. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the XVIth Dynasty by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1897)
"Thus only the total lengths of their reigns remains unsettled. Of Amenemhat I. we have the double date of his 3oth year=1oth of ..."

4. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1897)
"Thus the hypothesis of a double date, which would require very strong evidence, is far from being proved at the present time. It is more satisfactory to ..."

5. The Philological Museum by Julius Charles Hare (1832)
"446 exhibits a double date, 7r-, that is, 56 and 102. ... It is probable that this coin with the double date was struck expressly to commemorate this change ..."

6. Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ: Nundinal Calendars of Ancient Italy, Nundinal by Edward Greswell (1854)
"But that this prima facie explanation of this double date in the third year of the cycle would not be satisfactory may fairly be argued from the fact that ..."

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