Dated and Ago

verb

• Go on a date with.
  • usage: "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
  • synonyms: date
• Stamp with a date.
  • usage: "The package is dated November 24"
  • synonyms: date, date stamp
• Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of.
  • usage: "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
  • synonyms: date
• Date regularly; have a steady relationship with.
  • usage: "Did you know that she is seeing an older man"; "He is dating his former wife again"
  • synonyms: go steady, go out, date, see
• Provide with a dateline; mark with a date.
  • usage: "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
  • synonyms: date

adjective

• Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past. .

(imp.&p.p.) of Date.

adjective

• Gone by; or in the past.
  • usage: "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"
  • synonyms: agone

adverb

• In the past.
  • usage: "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U. S."

(a.&adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.