Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun date_of_reference

1 sense of date of reference

Sense 1
epoch, date of reference -- ((astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded)
       => date -- (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class")