DATE BACK
Dictionary entry overview: What does date back mean? • DATE BACK (verb)
The verb DATE BACK has 1 sense:
1. belong to an earlier time
Familiarity information: DATE BACK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DATE BACK (verb)
Meaning:
Belong to an earlier time
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
date back; date from; go back
Context example:
This story dates back 200 years
Hypernyms (to "date back" is one way to...):
initiate; originate; start (bring into being)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date back"):
ascend (go back in order of genealogical succession)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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