datebook

noun

date·​book ˈdāt-ˌbu̇k 

plural datebooks

: a small book or calendar in which one writes planned or scheduled dates, appointments, etc.

Open my datebook to any day of the week and it's the same story: My daughter is running in a cross-country meet and my younger son is playing baseball.

—Joyce Maynard

also : a place on a computer or other device for entering similar information

… pull out your calendars or your digital datebook and mark Aug. 20 on your calendar because the MuckFest 5k is coming to town.

—Rachel Wittrock

Examples of datebook in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The iHeartRadio Music Festival, after 12 years as a staple event in Las Vegas’ datebook, took over the T-Mobile Arena Friday and Saturday with the top stars of music and podcasting, radio and streaming, canvassing both the audience, onstage and backstage. —Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022

Travel snapshots from Betye Saar’s datebook for her trip to Haiti, July 17-23, 1978. —Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023

Like restaurants from another era, reservations were being jotted into a large datebook. —Marc Bona, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2023

But that’s the only acting gig in Jacobson’s datebook. —Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021

But under the new partnership, JWS founder Jody Williams and creative director Nina Jenkins will oversee Gill's writing datebook, focused on both the appropriate volume and the right co-writers for Gill's talents and goals. —Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 June 2021

With more social distancing came more blank spaces in his datebook. —Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above