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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

过时的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: guòshí de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dated/ˈdeɪ.tɪd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这栋建筑的设计看起来很过时。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Old-fashioned; belonging to a time in the past and no longer fashionable or relevant.

    "The interior design of the hotel lobby felt quite dated with its 1970s color palette."
  2. 2

    Marked with a date or specific chronological period.

    "The manuscript was clearly dated, bearing the signature of the author from 1924."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the past participle of the verb date, which traces back to Latin datus (given), originating from the practice of appending a date to letters or documents. By the 19th century, the term shifted metaphorically from indicating a time marker on a document to describing something belonging to or characteristic of a past time, eventually acquiring the connotation of being old-fashioned.

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