Meaning of online date | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A date over the Internet.
2. A person dated over the Internet.

Equivalents

Examples

“We had arranged to see⟳ one another again on the Sunday but I never heard from him again. Well, that is until I met my now husband a few months after the online date⟳.”

“One male study⟳ participant casually admitted to a “find⟳ my flaw mentality,” which mindset may be why so many online dates seem to have⟳ a strange, interview-like feel⟳. […] One of my first online dates was with a financial executive who admitted that he’d had something like⟳ eighty online dates in the last⟳ year, but that he rarely asked a woman on a second date⟳.”

“It’s the succeeding part I’m having a little more trouble⟳ with. A job writing obituaries and one online date⟳ is not turning my life around.”

“I lost Nick and I don’t find⟳ Chinese men attractive. We used to make⟳ fun of this, but it’s not fun anymore. I want⟳ to go back to see⟳ my online date⟳ in London or find⟳ a former classmate to get⟳ married.”

“When he finished the phone call⟳ I quizzed him asking him about the person he’d mentioned on the phone. It turned out that my online date⟳ was a really good friend of his and had worked with him on a Channel 4 programme.”

“He then asked the prosecutors and the defense attorneys to stand⟳ up, and he introduced them to the court. Much to my surprise⟳, up at the front, looking serious, there stood one of my past online dates—the handsome prosecutor.”

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