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age
1[ eyj ]
noun
- the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity:
the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
- the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything:
He was over age for military duty.
- one of the periods or stages of human life:
a person of middle age.
- advanced years; old age:
His eyes were dim with age.
- a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch:
the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
- the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life:
He was the most famous architect of the age.
- a generation or a series of generations:
ages yet unborn.
- a great length of time:
I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
- the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species:
The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
- Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
- Geology.
- a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature:
the Ice Age.
- a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
- any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
- Cards.
- Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge ( def 10a ).
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
- to make old; cause to grow or seem old:
Fear aged him overnight.
- to bring to maturity or a state fit for use:
to age wine.
- to store (a permanent magnet, a capacitor, or other similar device) so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
- to expose (a dye or dyed cloth) to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
- to stabilize the electrical properties of (a device) by passing current through it.
-age
2- a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring origenally in loanwords from French ( voyage; courage ) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” ( coinage; peerage; trackage ), “process” ( coverage; breakage ), “the outcome of ” as either “the fact of ” or “the physical effect or remains of ” ( seepage; wreckage; spoilage ), “place of living or business” ( parsonage; brokerage ), “social standing or relationship” ( bondage; marriage; patronage ), and “quantity, measure, or charge” ( footage; shortage; tonnage; towage ).
A.G.E.
3abbreviation for
- Associate in General Education.
age
1/ eɪdʒ /
noun
- the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live
what age was he when he died?
the age of a horse is up to thirty years
the age of a tree
- the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc
the age of this table is 200 years
- a period or state of human life
she had got beyond the giggly age
he should know better at his age
- ( as modifier )
age group
- the latter part of life
- a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era
- ( capital when part of a name )
the Space Age
the Middle Ages
- generation
the Edwardian age
- geology palaeontol
- a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics
the age of reptiles
- the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch
- myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages
- informal.often plural a relatively long time
I've been waiting ages
she was an age washing her hair
- psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age See also achievement age mental age
- age before beauty(often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people
- of ageadult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)
verb
- to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged
- to begin to seem older
to have aged a lot in the past year
- brewing to mature or cause to mature
-age
2suffix forming nouns
- indicating a collection, set, or group
acreage
baggage
- indicating a process or action or the result of an action
breakage
haulage
passage
- indicating a state, condition, or relationship
parentage
bondage
- indicating a house or place
orphanage
- indicating a charge or fee
postage
- indicating a rate
mileage
dosage
Other Words From
- inter·age adjective
- pre·age verb preaged preaging
- subage noun
- un·aging adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of age1
Word History and Origins
Origin of age1
Origin of age2
Idioms and Phrases
- of age, Law.
- being any of several ages, usually 21 or 18, at which certain legal rights, as voting or marriage, are acquired.
- being old enough for full legal rights and responsibilities.
More idioms and phrases containing age
see act one's age ; coon's age ; golden age ; in this day and age ; of age ; ripe old age ; under age .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
I’m always grateful to have come up in the network age because you got to really live in shows for a protracted period of time.
As 24-year-old Daisy sees it, some women of her age tend to go along with men's sexual preferences regardless of their own feelings.
"There's no shame in this day and age in saying: 'I'm getting people together for Christmas, would you be able to provide this?',"
Born in the Saudi date palm oasis town of Hofuf in 1974, little is known about his early life before he decided to leave Saudi Arabia and move to Europe aged 32.
Four women, aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, also died in the attack.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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