faire date

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛʁ dat/
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Verb

faire date

  1. to make history, to go down in history, to become a historical milestone, to set a precedent
    Synonym: faire époque
    • 2020 May 27, Wiebke Drenckhan, Jean Farago, “Le langage, une émergence explosive”, in Le Monde:
      Récemment, le physicien Eric DeGiuli a proposé, dans Physical Review Letters, une théorie qui pourrait faire date en linguistique « générative ».
      Recently, the physicist Eric DeGiuli proposed, in Physical Review Letters, a theory that could become a landmark in "generative" linguistics.