up to dateadv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌʌp tᵿ ˈdeɪt/, U.S.

/ˌəp tə ˈdeɪt/

Forms: Also up-to-date.

Etymology: up adv.¹ 26c (c ). See date n.² Phrases 5.

A. adv.

1. Right up to the present time, or the time of writing.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > up to the present time or up-to-date

down to date1840

up to date1868

to date1936

up-to-the-minutely1959

1868 W. M. Baker New Timothy xiii So of Solomon in reference to Rehoboam, and of every father in reference to his son, up to date.

1882 Imperial Dict. To make the requisite entries on [a book] up to date.

1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. p. xxvii But up to 1001 the Winchester monks kept it up to date.

2. In a condition abreast of the times in respect of qualities, style, knowledge, presentation of facts, etc.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > up to the present time or up-to-date > in an up to date condition

down to date1848

up to date1889

1889 G. R. Sims & H. Pettitt (title) Faust up to date. Burlesque opera.

1890 C. W. Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. I. p. vii I..tried to bring my volumes up to date.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 293 The improvements for this season render this camera quite ‘up to date’.

1892 Bookseller 8/2 The..information seems.. to be as accurate and as well up to date as ever.

1894 Daily News 9 June 5/2 Why, then, should Lord Salisbury sharpen his faculties and keep them, as the odious modern phrase is, up to date?

B. adj.

1. Extending to the present time; presenting or inclusive of the latest facts, details, etc.; employing or involving the latest methods or devices.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern

modern1585

new-schoolish1844

New World1847

latter day1850

contemporary1859

unantiquated1859

todayish1864

contemporaneous1871

modernistic1878

presentist1878

up to date1888

down to date1893

up-with-the-times1893

de nos jours1909

up to the minute1909

chromium-plate1924

chromium-plated1924

contempo1944

now1955

New Wave1960

nouveau1974

1888 Academy 4 Feb. 73/2 In the absence of a good up-to-date English work on the islands.

1890 Sat. Rev. 16 Aug. 209/2 A complete and up-to-date summary of Demosthenic scholarship.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Feb. 2/1 Providing Malta dockyard with proper and up-to-date salvage and pumping apparatus.

1894 G. A. Sala London up to Date 30 Juvenility of appearance and general up-to-date smartness.

a. predicative. Of persons: Having or employing the latest information, facts, or methods; keeping or being abreast of the times.

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1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers i A Grand Inquisitor is always up to date.

1892 Spectator 5 Mar. 339/1 The young farmer is thoroughly up to date, to use the modern catch-word.

1896 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 397 Jimmy is up to date, and much too clever for me.

b. attributive. Having tastes, style, manners, etc., regarded as prevailing at or characteristic of the present time.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern > (of persons) keeping up with times > in tastes, manners, etc.

up to date1891

1891 Star 16 Dec. 3/4 Up-to-date damsels, and eighteenth century belles.

1897 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times V. v. 99 The ‘up-to-date’ reader, to use a vile slang phrase of the present day, does not much care about classics.

Phrases

(brought, written, posted) up to date: said in book-keeper's phrase of accounts, a journal, ledger, etc.; hence, figurative up to the knowledge, requirements, or standard of the time (colloquial).

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1890 C. W. Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. I. p. vii I..tried to bring my volumes up to date.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 6/3 The two gentlemen..who invented the Gaiety burlesque ‘up to date’—and gave this detestable phrase to the language.

Derivatives

up-to-ˈdatedness n. rare

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1931 A. Huxley Music at Night iv. 224 The public is taught that up-to-datedness is one of the first duties of man.

up-to-ˈdately adv. rare

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1928 Daily Express 23 Mar. 5/4 Furnish and equip her studio charmingly..and above all up-to-dately.

up-to-ˈdateness n.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity

modernity1635

modernness1653

modernism1772

actualité1839

up-to-dateness1891

up-to-datism1893

topicality1904

presentism1916

up-to-the-minuteness1940

1891 Bicycling News 21 Feb. 113/2 Their list..suggests cheapness and up-to-dateness.

1893 Educat. Rev. May 423 His up-to-dateness..in the right view of handling history in class.

up-to-ˈdatish n. (also up-to-ˈdatishness)

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1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/3 And this, they keep saying, is ‘up-to-datishness’.

1903 Christian Endeavour Times 5 Nov. The Academy, under its new editor, is decidedly more up-to-datish.

up-to-ˈdatism n.

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