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dates back

dates back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of date back.

Meaning of date back

Verb

date back (third-person singular simple present dates back, present participle dating back, simple past and past participle dated back)

  1. To have begun at a particular time; for there to be records of something extending to a time in history.
    • This tradition dates back 1000 years.

Questions about dates back

What is dates back the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dates back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of date back.

Words near dates back in the dictionary

  1. dater
  2. daters
  3. daterview
  4. daterviews
  5. dates
  6. dates back
  7. dates of birth
  8. dates of births
  9. dates of death
  10. dates of deaths
  11. dates out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dates back (page history and authors); date back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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