Dictionary Definition
age
Noun
1 how long something has existed; "it was
replaced because of its age"
2 an era of history having some distinctive
feature; "we live in a litigious age" [syn: historic
period]
3 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" [syn: eld]
4 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" [syn:
old age,
years, eld, geezerhood]
5 a prolonged period of time; "we've known each
other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn:
long
time, years]
Verb
1 begin to seem older; get older; "The death of
his wife caused him to age fast"
2 grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we
age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
[syn: senesce, get on, mature, maturate]
3 make older; "The death of his child aged him
tremendously" [ant: rejuvenate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /eɪʤ/, /eIdZ/
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- Rhymes with: -eɪdʒ
Etymology
From aage (French âge), supposedly from aetaticum, from aetas, from aevum.Noun
- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is
between its beginning and any given time.
- What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
- The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
- One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains
full personal rights and capacities.
- to come of age
- he (or she) is of age
- to come of age
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is
understood to become vested.
- the age of consent
- the age of discretion
- the age of consent
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from
others.
- the golden age
- the age of Pericles
- the golden age
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
- A century; the period of one hundred years.
- The people who live at a particular period.
- Hence, a generation.
- A long time.
Translations
whole duration of a being
- Arabic: زمن
- Danish: levetid
- Dutch: leeftijd
- Esperanto: aĝo
- Finnish: elinikä, ikä
- French: âge
- German: Lebenszeit
- Gujarati: ઉમર (umar)
- Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
- Hindi: आयु (aayu), उमर (umr)
- Japanese: 寿命; 一生
- Khmer:
- Korean: 일생 (ilsaeng); 수명 (sumyeong)
- Polish: czas życia , długość życia
- Romanian: viaţă
- Russian: возраст
- Scottish Gaelic: aois
- Swedish: livslängd, livstid
- Turkish: ömür
- Urdu: (umr)
part of the duration of a being or thing between
its beginning and any given time
- Asturian: edá
- Basque: aro
- Catalan: edat
- Croatian: dob
- Czech: věk
- Danish: alder
- Dutch: leeftijd, ouderdom
- Esperanto: aĝo
- Finnish: ikä
- French: âge
- German: Alter
- Greek: ηλικία (ilikía)
- Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
- Hungarian: kor
- Interlingua: etate
- Italian: età
- Japanese: 年齢; 年
- Khmer:
- Korean: 연령 (yeonryeong); 나이 (nai)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: تهمهن
- Latin: aetas
- Polish: wiek
- Portuguese: idade, rarely edade
- Romanian: vârstă, etate
- Romansch: vegliadetgna
- Russian: возраст
- Scottish Gaelic: aois
- Slovak: vek
- Spanish: edad
- Swedish: ålder
- Turkish: yaş
latter part of life
one of the stages of life
- Finnish: ikä, jakso
- German: Alter
- Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
- Polish: wiek, etap
- Romanian: perioadă
- Russian: возраст
- Slovak: vek
- Swedish: ålder
- Turkish: çağ
time of life when one attains full person rights
- Danish: myndig
- Finnish: täysi-ikäisyys
- German: Volljährigkeit
- Japanese: 成人, 成人する (to come of age)
- Korean: 성년 (seongnyeon)
- Polish: dorosłość, pełnoletniość
- Romanian: majorat
- Russian: совершеннолетие (sov'eršennol'étije)
- Slovak: dospelý vek
- Turkish: yetişkin
time of life at which some particular power or
capacity is understood to become vested
particular period of time in history
- Asturian: edá
- Chinese: 时代 ()
- Czech: doba
- Danish: epoke
- Dutch: tijdperk, era, tijd, epoch
- Finnish: aika, kausi
- French: âge
- German: Zeit, Epoche, Periode
- Greek: εποχή
- Hebrew: תקופה (tqufa) , עידן (ydan)
- Indonesian: zaman
- Interlingua: epocha
- Italian: età
- Japanese: 時代
- Korean: 시대, 時代 (sidae)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: دهور, سهردهم
- Latin: aetas
- Low Saxon: tied
- Maltese: żmien
- Polish: epoka, era
- Portuguese: edade
- Romanian: epocă
- Russian: эпоха , эра , время (often used in its plural form времена), век (especially to indicate particular century)
- Scottish Gaelic: linn , ùine
- Slovak: vek
- Spanish: edad
- Swedish: tid, ålder, era
- Turkish: çağ
- Welsh: yr
great period in the history of the Earth
- Danish: tidsalder
- Finnish: geologinen kausi, kausi
- French: époque, ère
- German: Ära, Zeitalter
- Hebrew: עידן (ydan)
- Interlingua: epocha, era;
- Italian: epoca, era
- Maltese: era, epoka
- Polish: era
- Portuguese: época, era
- Romanian: epocă, eră
- Russian: эпоха , эра , время (often used in its plural form времена), век (especially to indicate particular century)
- Slovak: vek
- Spanish: época, era
- Swedish: era, ålder, tidsålder
- Turkish: çağ
century
- See century
people who live at a particular period
generation
- See generation
- Danish: generation
- Dutch: generatie
- French: génération
- German: Generation
- Hebrew: דור (dor)
- Interlingua: generation
- Italian: generazione
- Japanese: 世代
- Korean: 세대, 世代 (sedae)
- Maltese: ġenerazzjoni
- Polish: pokolenie
- Portuguese: geração
- Romanian: generaţie
- Russian: поколение
- Spanish: generación
- Swedish: generation
- Turkish: nesil
a long time
- Hebrew: נצח (netzakh)
- Romanian: veşnicie
- Slovak: vek
- Swedish: åratal
Verb
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- Grief ages us.
- transitive figurative To postpone an
action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
- To categorize by age.
- One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- He grew fat as he aged.''
Translations
transitive: cause to grow old
intransitive: become old
- Czech: stárnout
- Dutch: oud worden, verouderen
- Finnish: vanhentua, vanheta
- German: alt werden, älter werden, altern, vergreisen, reifen
- Hebrew: להזדקן (le'hizdaqen)
- Japanese: 年を取る, としをとる (toshi wo toru)
- Korean: 나이를먹다 (nai reul meokda)
- Polish: starzeć się
- Romanian: îmbătrâni
- Russian: стареть/состариться (star'ét')/(sostárit's'a)
- Slovak: starnúť, zostarnúť
- Swedish: åldras
- Turkish: yaşlanmak
Synonyms
- sense latter part of life dotage, old age
Derived terms
- act one's age
- age bracket
- aged
- ageism
- age group
- ageist
- ageless
- age limit
- agelong
- age of consent
- age-old
- ages
- ageing, aging
- Bronze Age
- golden age
- ice age
- Industrial Age
- Iron Age
- Middle Ages
- of age
- silver age
- Stone Age
- teenage, teenager
- under age
See also
French
Extensive Definition
Age may refer to:
The length of time that an organism has lived:
- aging, for the social, cultural, and economic factors of age and aging.
- senescence, for the biology and science of aging.
A period of history:
Other:
- Agé, a god from the mythology of the Fon people; the son of Mawu-Lisa;
- One of the D'ni Ages, the fictional universe in the Myst series of games.
- Agenore Incrocci, an Italian screenwriter.
- Age (Model theory), the class of all finitely generated structures which are embeddable in a structure A in mathematics.
- âge Japanese company
- The Age is a daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia.
AGE is a three-letter
acronym that may refer to:
- Advanced glycation endproduct, a class of spontaneously modified molecules whose modification begins with an initial glycation
- A. G. Edwards, a brokerage firm
- Agarose gel electrophoresis, a method used in molecular biology
- American Aging Association (abbreviated AGE, although not an acronym)
- Applied general equilibrium
- Arterial gas embolism
- Agricultural & General Engineers, a group of companies
age in German: Age
age in Spanish: AGE
age in French: AGE
age in Italian: AGE
age in Japanese: エイジ
age in Portuguese: Idade
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Depression Era, Golden
Age, Ice Age, Iron Age, Jacksonian Age, Middle Ages, New Deal Era,
Platonic year, Prohibition Era, Silver Age, Steel Age, Stone Age,
abidingness,
aboriginality,
aeon, ages, ancien regime, ancientness, annus magnus,
antiquate, antiquity, atavism, become extinct, become
obsolete, blue moon, caducity, century, cheat the undertaker,
cobwebs of antiquity, constancy, continuance, cycle, cycle of indiction,
date, day, days, decline, defeat of time,
defiance of time, develop, diuturnity, dodder, durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages,
eld, elderliness, eldership, endurance, epoch, era, eternity, fade, fail, florid, fossilize, fust, generation, get along, get
on, glacial epoch, great age, great year, grow, grow old, grow up, hoary age,
hoary eld, indiction,
inveteracy, lastingness, life, lifetime, long, long standing, long time,
long while, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, lose currency,
maintenance,
maturate, mellow, molder, month of Sundays,
obsolesce, old age,
old order, old style, oldness, outdate, perdurability, perennation, period of
existence, perish,
permanence, perpetuity, persistence, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, right smart
spell, ripe, ripen, rust, senectitude, senescence, senility, seniority, shake, shrivel, sink, stability, standing, steadfastness, superannuate, survival, survivance, time, totter, turn gray, turn white,
venerableness,
wane, waste away, wither, wizen, wrinkle, years, years on
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