dater
Americannoun
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a person who goes on dates or uses a dating app.
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a person or thing that assigns or affixes a date to something.
Example Sentences
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So if you’re an avid online dater, be extra careful of these types of deceptions.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2025
The first step to becoming a secure dater is figuring out what drives how you act in relationships.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
"In the last couple of years the media have had a wonderful fixation on painting me as the psycho serial dater girl," she told the Grammy Museum.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
Novak stars as Ben, a Manhattan journalist and serial dater who flies to Nowheresville, Texas, for the funeral of a woman he was seeing.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
Yr. fathfull dater, Lydia Worthen It seemed extravagant to take another sheet to write to Charlie, but Diana had said that she ought to write to him as well.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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