Date and Year

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Date noun - An agreement to be present at a specified time and place.

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Year is a synonym for date in day topic. In some cases you can use "Year" instead a noun "Date", when it comes to topics like age, point in time.

Nearby Word: dated

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Date is a synonym for year in period topic. You can use "Date" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

old	old date	old year
full	full date	full year
exact	exact date	exact year
particular	particular date	particular year
Other adjectives: specific, certain, present, current, original, single, actual, real, wrong, bad, late, final, later, worst, next, last, unspecified, said.

A question that frequently stumped contestants, especially during the early years, centered on the first date/year of a particular century.

Source: Epic Fail / Game Shows
He tries to ask people the date in his shaky Latin, and at first gets the year in the old Roman calendar then has to ask how many years since Christ was born to get the proper year.

Source: What Year Is This?
One variation on this trope is for the character to ask for "the date", then clarify, once given the day or the month and day, that they need the year.

Source: What Year Is This?

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Year and Date. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/date/year

Date & Year. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/date/year>.

Year or Date. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/date/year.

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