dating back
Tracing to earlier
Dating back means extending to a particular time in the past, establishing when something originated or began: a tradition dating back to medieval times, manuscripts dating back centuries.
The phrase typically follows a noun and connects to a time marker with "to": a friendship dating back to college, ruins dating back to the Roman Empire.
- originsPoints where things start
- family treeChart of ancestors
- antediluvianExtremely old or obsolete
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
prehistoric · provenance · excavation · stratigraphy · lineage · antiquity · oral history · bygone · paleontology · patrimony · relic · archaeology · tradition · era · folklore · days of yore · olden days · ancient times
dating backbrand new
Completely unused, just acquired
modern · newfangled · novel · unprecedented · contemporary
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