double date
noun
a date on which two couples go together.
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double-dateverb (used without object)to take part in a double date.
double date
1 Americannoun
Informal.
double-date
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American
[duhb-uhl-deyt]
/ ˈdʌb əlˈdeɪt /
verb (used without object)
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double-dates,
present (3rd person singular)
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double-dated,
past participle, past
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double-dating
present participle
verb (used with object)
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double-dates,
present (3rd person singular)
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double-dated,
past participle, past
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double-dating
present participle
double date
Idioms
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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double-datesimple
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double-datessimple
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have double-datedperfect
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has double-datedperfect
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am double-datingprogressive
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are double-datingprogressive
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is double-datingprogressive
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have been double-datingperfect progressive
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has been double-datingperfect progressive
Past
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double-datedsimple
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had double-datedperfect
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was double-datingprogressive
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were double-datingprogressive
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had been double-datingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of double date1
First recorded in 1920–25
Origin of double-date2
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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The improvement at Tinder comes as Match looks to turnaround the app with new product features like a double date tool and an improved recommendations algorithm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
But the pair of young couples are treating this practical business transaction between customer and caterer as their double date, lingering too long and asking for more wine, joking that they’re not quite certain yet.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
However, when she arrived on Fire Island, she realized this was not a work retreat, but a double date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
In June, Tinder introduced its double date feature.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
I go out with boys now and then, always on a double date or in groups.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
The app is finding early success with new product rollouts, including a face-scanning identity verification tool, a double-date feature and an improved match recommendation algorithm, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The president scheduled a double-date weekend at Camp David and took Simpson for a walk, passing by photographers whose pictures of the popular president and unpopular senator landed in the Sunday papers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2018
Jared and Ivanka were known to double-date with Murdoch and his ex-wife Wendi Deng, and even after Murdoch’s split with Deng, the two women and the two men remained close.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2017
For Patricia Ann Ross, the night of Dec. 11, 1974, was supposed to be fun: She had recently sold her plant boutique and the divorcee had a double-date in Huntington Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
People say: Did you hear those two double-date every Friday night?
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
He’s always the one who wants to be socialising, so he uses the group to arrange double-dates for the four of us.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017
The four of us became friends, had double-dates, dinners, trips, etc.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2014
“When you dare to run for public office, everyone you ever sat next to in high school homeroom or double-dated with or car-pooled with knows whether you won or, more likely, lost,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022
The earliest example here is a graphite and gouache drawing called “Target With Four Faces,” double-dated 1958/1967; the latest is from 1977.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
They played tennis and had lunch, and as Jim and Diane became involved, the two couples double-dated.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2016
They went to the same high school in Pennsylvania, and double-dated to the prom; he took one of her best friends.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 11, 2015
We once double-dated, in Ed Banky's car, and Stradlater was in the back, with his date, and I was in the front with mine.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
They had been double-dating with another couple and she and the other girl got into a discussion about engagement rings, talking about how big a diamond would have to be to be acceptable.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2013
Damon said he and his wife started double-dating with Krasinski and Blunt, through which their collaboration on "Promised Land" came about.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2012
She was 16 at the time, a high-school student from nearby Trenton, double-dating at a Hillel mixer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012
By the 1950s, the two men were double-dating with Dick and Pat Nixon, whom Hoover had met while pursuing the case against Alger Hiss.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2011
I liked being thought of as a couple, and double-dating with Bev and Derrick.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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