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[ verb ] belong to an earlier time

Synonyms

date_back go_back

Examples

"This story dates back 200 years"

Used in print

(Robert Deardorff, "Step by Step Through Istanbul"...)

On the other side of the Golden_Horn I rode through Eminonu_Square , with Yeni_Cami , or the New_Mosque , which dates_from the Seventeenth Century , just across from the entrance to the bridge .

Related terms

originate ascend

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