Age
[eɪdʒ] or [edʒ]
Definition
(noun.) how long something has existed; 'it was replaced because of its age'.
(noun.) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; 'she was now of school age'; 'tall for his eld'.
(verb.) begin to seem older; get older; 'The death of his wife caused him to age fast'.
(verb.) make older; 'The death of his child aged him tremendously'.
Typist: Wesley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
(n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
(n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
(n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
(n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
(n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
(n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
(n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
(n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
(n.) A long time.
(v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
(v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Duration of existence.[2]. Period, date, epoch, time.[3]. Century, a hundred years.[4]. Old age, decline of life, vale of years.[5]. Maturity, mature years, years of discretion.
Checker: Lorenzo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Period, generation, era, epoch, date, century, antiquity, senility, eldership,seniority
ANT:Youth, infancy, boyhood, childhood, moment, instant
Edited by Kelsey
Definition
n. the ordinary length of human life: the time during which a person or thing has lived or existed: mature years: legal maturity (at 21 years) or time of life with regard to crime contracts marriage &c.: a period of time: any great period of human history as the Golden Age the Bronze Age the Middle Ages or of individual history as the age of infancy the five—or seven—so-called ages of man: a generation of men: a century.—v.i. to grow old:—pr.p. āg′ing; pa.p. āg′ed.—adj. Aged (āj′ed) advanced in age: having a certain age.—n.pl. old people.—n. Agedness (āj′ed-nes) condition of being aged or old.—adjs. Age′less; Age′long.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of age, portends failures in any kind of undertaking. To dream of your own age, indicates that perversity of opinion will bring down upon you the indignation of relatives. For a young woman to dream of being accused of being older than she is, denotes that she will fall into bad companionship, and her denial of stated things will be brought to scorn. To see herself looking aged, intimates possible sickness, or unsatisfactory ventures. If it is her lover she sees aged, she will be in danger of losing him.
Checked by Dolores
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
Typed by Jared
Unserious Contents or Definition
Something to brag about in your wine-cellar and forget in a birth-day book The boast of an old vintage, the bug a boo of an old maid.
Edited by Gail
Examples
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was still only thirty-three years of age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She has the age and sense of a woman, but the outs and not outs are beyond me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. Plato. The Republic.
- A highly characteristic event at the age of six is described by his sister. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She has lived for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. Plato. The Republic.
- It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thinkest thou to escape from whence in all the countless ages but a single soul has fled? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The aged ecclesiastic had turned his face towards me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Any of the staid, respectable, aged people who were there that night can testify to the truth of that statement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To avoid being too abrupt, I then spoke of the Aged and of Miss Skiffins. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Bell, aged twenty-eight, explained his new idea to Henry, then aged seventy-eight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Standing before the dressing-glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their 'back-hair. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Only a few middle-aged and ageing people in France had had any practical experience of warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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