online date
online date noun: a date over the Internet.
Noun
online date (plural online dates)
- A date over the Internet.
- We had arranged to see one another again on the Sunday but I never heard from him again. Well, that is until I met my now husband a few months after the online date.2009, Rachel, “Fancy seeing you here”, in Georgia Barlow, The Cosmopolitan Guide to Online Dating: A Practical Guide for Dating Divas, London: JR Books, →ISBN, chapter 12 (True Stories: The Good, The...
- One male study participant casually admitted to a “find my flaw mentality,” which mindset may be why so many online dates seem to have a strange, interview-like feel. […] One of my first online dates was with a financial executive who admitted that he’d had something like eighty online dates in the...2015, L.V. Krause, “Help! I’m in a Shopping Cart and I Can’t Get Out”, in Eaten Alive: The Truth About Online Dating for Women, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Thought Catalog Books, published 2016, →ISBN, pages...
- A person dated over the Internet.
- I lost Nick and I don’t find Chinese men attractive. We used to make fun of this, but it’s not fun anymore. I want to go back to see my online date in London or find a former classmate to get married.2006, Annie Wang, “Too Far Ahead of Her Time”, in The People’s Republic of Desire, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, pages 432–433
- When he finished the phone call I quizzed him asking him about the person he’d mentioned on the phone. It turned out that my online date was a really good friend of his and had worked with him on a Channel 4 programme.2009, Rachel, “Fancy seeing you here”, in Georgia Barlow, The Cosmopolitan Guide to Online Dating: A Practical Guide for Dating Divas, London: JR Books, →ISBN, chapter 12 (True Stories: The Good, The...
Verb
online date (third-person singular simple present online dates, present participle online dating, simple past and past participle online dated)
- To date over the Internet.
- Don’t diss online dating […] But they might overlook you because a) by suggesting you’re above this online lark you sound arrogant b) you sound way too negative and cynical c) you’re suggesting that only desperados online date and therefore you must think they’re a desperado or d) they’re so bored...2009, Georgia Barlow, “The Write Impression”, in The Cosmopolitan Guide to Online Dating: A Practical Guide for Dating Divas, London: JR Books, →ISBN, pages 45–46
- The argument to online date was more convincing when I thought of my sister and her boyfriend and their perfect relationship.2013, Kayli Stollak, Granny Is My Wingman, New Harvest, →ISBN, page 30
Examples of online date in a sentence
- A job writing obituaries and one online date is not turning my life around.2020, Alexandra Potter, “Failing”, in Confessions of a Forty-Something, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 182:
- Much to my surprise, up at the front, looking serious, there stood one of my past online dates—the handsome prosecutor.2015, L.V. Krause, “A Dizzying Number of Dates”, in Eaten Alive: The Truth About Online Dating for Women, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Thought Catalog...
- So far, this book has been all about how to online date successfully.2014, Erika Ettin, Love at First Site: Tips and Tales for Online Dating Success from a Modern-Day Matchmaker, River Grove Books, →ISBN:
- This also follows my previous point about making friends with men and solidifying a cohort of brothers BEFORE you attempt to online date or engage with women.2019, HowExpert, Online Dating for Men 101: How to Find, Date, Attract, Connect, & Get into Great Relationships with Women from Online...
Forms of online date
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | online dates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | online dates |
| present participle | online dating |
| past participle | online dated |
| past | online dated |
| alternative form | online-date |
Origin of online date
From online + date.
Back-formation from online dating.
Questions about online date
- What does online date mean?
- Online date means a date over the Internet.
- How do you use online date in a sentence?
- A job writing obituaries and one online date is not turning my life around.
- What part of speech is online date?
- Online date can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of online date?
- The plural of online date is online dates.
Words near online date in the dictionary
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