How to pronounce date

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What date means

noun

Most people know date in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

The sweet, sticky brown fruit of a kind of palm tree

In a sentence: Grandpa chopped a sticky date and stirred it into the muffin batter.

Where it comes from: It comes through French and Latin from a Greek word meaning "finger," because the fruit looks a little like one. It is a different word from the date on a calendar.

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