age

[Age]

Your age is the number of years you've been alive. If your cat is six, you can say that he's "six years of age."

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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

Noun
how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"

Noun
a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"

Noun
a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he''s showing his years"; "age hasn''t slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"

Noun
a prolonged period of time; "we''ve known each other for ages"; "I haven''t been there for years and years"

Noun
an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"

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Verb
grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"

Verb
begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"

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make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"

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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

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The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

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One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

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Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.

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The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.

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A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.

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A great period in the history of the Earth.

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A century; the period of one hundred years.

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The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.

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A long time.

v. i.
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

v. t.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

Age

Age , n. [OF. aage, eage, F. '83ge, fr. L. aetas through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr. aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf. Each.] 1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

Mine age is as nothing before thee.

2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth? 3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.

4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak. 5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott. In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old. 6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. Abbott. 7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott.

Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness.

Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle. 8. A great period in the history of the Earth. The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Arch'91an, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. Dana. 9. A century; the period of one hundred years.

Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages.

10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope.

The way which the age follows.

Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

11. A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon. &hand; Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled, agelong. Syn. -- Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.

Age

Age, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aging .] To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.

I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there.

Age

Age, v. t. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

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Usage Examples

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

"My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8"" and weighed 165 pounds."