age

Meaning

Noun

1. The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. One of the stages of life.
4. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
5. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
6. A great period in the history of the Earth.
7. One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
8. A period of one hundred years; a century.
9. The people who live during a particular period.
10. A generation.
11. A long time.
12. The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
13. The right 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.
14. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
15. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
16. An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.

Verb

1. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
2. (informal) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
3. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
4. To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
5. To categorize by age.
6. To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.

Concepts

age

era

period

epoch

time

grow old

year

generation

years

become old

mature

old age

lifetime

get old

eld

season

term

times

old

grow older

date

oldness

phase

moment

life

century

world

get on

senesce

geezerhood

historic period

eternity

eon

period of time

stage

make old

aeon

harvest

span

maturate

long time

get older

age-specific

elderly

spell

day

age of majority

senescence

size

hour

space

stint

patch

ripen

get along

olden

long life

reign

majority

senility

make look old

years old

life span

years of age

wear out

age-related

advance in age

advance in years

rule

amount

how old

first

vintage

teeth

teardrop

young

chukka

chukker

instant

minute

second

calendar year

longevity

age limit

time of life

personage

epoc

cure

harden

temper

rope

appointment

clocking

quite

rather

reasonably

temporal

stretch

tide

time period

obsolesce

run out

expire

agedness

grow up

look old

man

become aged

regime

sweet seventeen

all through life

one existence

whole life

whole world

society

aged

old people

become grown-up

year of birth

elderliness

duration

age differences

grey

wane

horizon

full age

antiquity

year of age

be old

rent

layer

earth

nature

place

soil

germination

list

tilt

tip

stale

instar

stadium

become an adult

disablement

bigness

supremacy

maturity

duration of life

length of life

Pronounced as (IPA)

/eɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.
Displaced native Old English ieldu.

Sentences

His father introduced him to boxing around the age of seven .

From an early age , Gerard Mur showed a great talent for writing .

Metals and related concepts were mentioned in various early Vedic age texts .

The presence of Gilded Age estates is a large component of Oakdale's past .