age

Plural: ages

Noun

• how long something has existed
  • "it was replaced because of its age"
• an era of history having some distinctive feature
  • "we live in a litigious age"
• a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
  • "she was now of school age"
• a prolonged period of time
  • "we've known each other for ages"
• a late time of life
  • "old age is not for sissies"
  • "age hasn't slowed him down at all"
• The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
• The state of being old; the latter part of life.
• Any particular stage of life.
• The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
• Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• A great period in the history of the Earth.
• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
• One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
• A period of one hundred years; a century.
• A generation.
• A long time.
• Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
• The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.

Verb

Verb Forms: aged, aging, ageing, ages

• To grow or make old; to mature or deteriorate with time.
• begin to seem older; get older
  • "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
• grow old or older
  • "She aged gracefully"
  • "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"
• make older
  • "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
• To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
• To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
• To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
• To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
• To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
• To allow to mature.
• To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
• To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
• To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
• To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
• To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
• To categorize by age.

Examples

• "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
• At your age, your mom and I'd already found a job.
• Grief ages us.
• He grew fat as he aged.
• He watched his opponent age with frustration as he played ’AGE’ for a surprising hook.
• His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
• I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
• I have a daughter your age, and I tell her when I was your age I was already working.
• It’s been an age since we last saw you.
• Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
• One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
• the age of consent; the age of discretion
• the age of infancy
• The age of man is three score years and ten.
• the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs
• The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
• the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
• The sitcom was made in the 1970s and its casual sexism has not aged well.
• The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.
• There are several ways to age trees.
• There are three ages living in her house.
• This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
• Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.
• to come of age; she is now of age
• We age the whiskey for five years.
• We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.
• What is the present age of the earth?
• What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
• You should play with kids the same age as you.

Synonyms

eld, geezerhood, get on, historic period, long time, maturate, mature, old age, senesce, years, Great Year, Platonic year, adulthood, aeon, age, ages, blue moon, centennium, chair days, codgerhood, coon's age, crow's age, cycle, date, day, dog's age, donkey's years, dotage, elden, elderliness, eon, epoch, era, eternity, fogeydom, forever, forever and a day, geezerdom, generation, golden years, grow up, interim, interlude, interval, lifetime, long haul, long run, majority, make older, meantime, minute, month of Sundays, obsolesce, olden, oldhood, period, season, senectitude, senescence, senility, seniority, spell, sunset years, superannuate, time, to age, twilight years, upgrow, vetustity, while, yonks

Antonyms

rejuvenate, youngen, youth, youthen

Related Words

age on Wikiquote, decay, go by the wayside, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, make older, wither