Age Definition

age

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /eɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /eIdZ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology

From Middle English age, from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetātem, accusative form of aetās, from aevum (“lifetime”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (from Old English eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
2. 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?

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

   Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.

   Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
5. 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

6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

   the age of consent

   the age of discretion

7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

   the golden age

   the age of Pericles

8. A great period in the history of the Earth.
9. A century; the period of one hundred years.
10. The people who live at a particular period.
11. Hence, a generation.

    There are three ages living in her house.

12. (hyperbolic) A long time.

    It's been an age since we last saw you.

Synonyms

• (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld

Derived terms

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

   Grief ages us.

2. (transitive, figuratively) 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.

3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.

   One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

   He grew fat as he aged.

Translations

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See also

• Age on Wikiquote.en.Wikiquote
• Appendix:Age by decade

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: later · beyond · rose · #490: age · nearly · miles · real

External links

• age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• age in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• EGA
• G. E. A.

French

Noun

age m. (plural ages)

1. beam
2. shaft

Japanese

Noun

age (hiragana あげ)

1. 揚げ: something fried
2. 上げ: rise in something, especially price
3. 上げ: a tuck in a kimono

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV ("to make sour, to rot"). Compare Assan bar-ak ("rotten") and Arin bar-oje ("rotten").

Adjective

age

1. rotten

Related terms

• b-āge-jaŋ
• d́āgejaŋ

Latin

Verb

age

1. second-person singular present active imperative of agō

Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Occitan

Noun

age m. (plural ages)

1. age

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• āg

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *augô.

Noun

āge n.

1. eye

Declension

Descendants

• West Frisian: each

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