DATE FROM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does date from mean? 

• DATE FROM (verb)
  The verb DATE FROM has 1 sense:

1. belong to an earlier time

  Familiarity information: DATE FROM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATE FROM (verb)

Sense 1

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 from" is one way to...):

initiate; originate; start (bring into being)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date from"):

ascend (go back in order of genealogical succession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The limits date from 1999 and haven't been reviewed.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The other four tombs are believed to date from the Old Kingdom period and are thus at least 4000 years old.

(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)