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age English

Meaning age meaning

What does age mean?
Definitions in simple English

age Noun

— Something's age is how long it has existed or been alive; how old something is. The boy said he was age five. Scott is showing his age. — An age is a time period. The 1960s was a new age in music.

age Verb

— To get older. Lillian has aged gracefully.

age

— noun how long something has existed it was replaced because of its age — noun an era of history having some distinctive feature we live in a litigious age — noun (= eld) 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 (= senesce) grow old or older She aged gracefully we age every day--what a depressing thought! Young men senesce — verb make older The death of his child aged him tremendously — noun (= years) a prolonged period of time we've known each other for ages I haven't been there for years and years — noun (= old age, years, eld, geezerhood) 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

Synonyms age synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as age?

age English » English

era period epoch time grow old year generation years become old old age mature lifetime get old eld times term season phase oldness old grow older date world moment life century stage span senesce period of time make old historic period harvest get on geezerhood eternity eon aeon years old stint spell space size senility senescence ripen reign patch olden maturate

AGE English » English

auxiliary ground equipment aerospace ground equipment

Topics age topics

What do people use age to talk about?
Person Life Stage of life

Old person
States Time Aspectual time

Age
States Time Period of time

Era
Language and thought Communication Story

History
Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Daily life Food Types of food Alcoholic beverage

Alcohol preparation
Person Life Stage of life

Peer group
Person Life Stage of life

Adult
Person Life Marriage

Arrange a marriage
Person Life Stage of life

Youth
Person Life Stage of life

Initiation

  • What words refer to the time when a child is initiated?
    coming of age
Social behavior

Relationships
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Mature in behavior
Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Hinduism
States Big Thick

Fat person
States Time Aspectual time Age

Old, not new

Conjugation age conjugation

How do you conjugate age?

age · verb

Examples age examples

How do I use age in a sentence?

Simple sentences

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
You must take his age into account.
When did your daughter come of age?
Our teacher looks young for her age.
Can you guess my age?
Because of his age, my grandfather doesn't hear well.
Act your age.
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age.
He has become weaker with age.
She got married at the age of seventeen.
He died at age 54.
Do you look your age?
She died at the age of 54.
Mary lied about her age.
What age are you?
When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
He doesn't look his age.
He died at a very old age.
You should know better than to ask a lady her age.
You ought to know better at your age.
At your age, you ought to know better.
You and I are the same age.
The salary is fixed according to age and experience.
We Japanese come of age at twenty.
We must provide for old age.
Now you've come of age, you have the right to vote.
Your son has come of age.

Movie subtitles

Henry V himself became King at the age of 26, and was dead from dysentery by 35 - a reminder, by the way, that most history is made by young people.
Captured in battle at the age of 1 1, he was castrated and assigned as a servant to the man who would seize the Imperial throne as Yongle.
Some scholars speculate they reached as far as northern australia, the Cape of Good Hope and greenland, and all this was years before the European Age of exploration had so much as begun.
And with every new individual timepiece, a little bit more time ran out for the age of oriental predominance.
Hey, pushing someone in the pool in the age of cell phones is not funny.
No ID, nothing distinguishing, other than being Asian, 25 to 30 years of age and a tattoo of the word Scarlett.
I assume you mean people of about age eight or younger?
Or have a mental age of eight.
And girls of that age are complicated creatures.
At my age one never knows when the rain will come.
Uh, do we really need New Age philosophy screamed at us while we sweat?
We live in an age in which the world has endured the threat of annihilation at the hands of nuclear weapons.
As far as I know, your woman is of age, and she may do with her inheritance as she pleases!
Do you want your daughter. you think i was mother at my age.
When you return, I'll be of age.
He doesn't look his age, no matter how you slice it.
Edward Higgins, age 48, a physics teacher who resides in Torrance County.
In spite of that, you left home without any explanation at the age of 16.
This proves that Ms. Delange was accustomed to lying from a young age and her father no longer trusted her.
Your full name, age and occupation?
This insurance policy provides for your little one and your old age, which will be here in a few weeks.
I live in another age.
When I was your age, I'd have given my right leg for one of those.
At your age I went to bed right after supper.
William Harrigan had been an actor on the stage since the age of five.
He moved to London at a very young age, and before coming to America in 1924 Harvey had been featured in English film comedies for ten years.
Born in Wales, Clive was a master of the various dialects of the British Isles, and toured extensively in the provinces after taking up a stage career at the age of 22.
I've told the cleaner to help me wipe off the coffee stain. He takes so much pride in his work and I can't deal a blow to his enthusiasm. Looks like as you age, your memory will worsen, isn't that right?
But why did your face age so much?
Because of his age, he shouldn't work outside the office.
What's that at our age.
At my age. I'm pregnant?
But I have it at this age?
Around 50 years of age. At the 5 year wedding anniversary. a 5 week old fetus, is in here.
Making your own fortune at a young age.
It's a dangerous thing to have affairs at our age.
At the age of.
You'll spend all your old age with a woman who likes to make others unhappy.
Could you imagine me in school at my age?
Act your age, old man!

News and current affairs

We live in an age of simultaneous fear of inflation and deflation; of unprecedented prosperity amid growing inequality; and of technological advancement and resource depletion.
Cleaning up the Niger Delta would provide the strongest possible example of a new age of accountability.
The cleanup of the Niger Delta provides an ideal opportunity for Nigeria, the oil industry, and the international community to show convincingly that a new age has dawned.
Despite increasing incomes, Russians are less educated and less healthy than they were when Putin came to power; they still die at a shockingly young age.
NEW YORK - Is this the Age of the Conspiracy Theory?
Likewise, in an age when corporate lobbyists have a free hand in shaping - if not drafting - public policies, many people believe, again rightly, that their elected officials no longer represent them.
We need to change the flow of information in the Internet age.
Consider one of the miracles of the modern age - the personal computer.
Many, perhaps most, are under sixteen years of age.
This was the golden age of finance.
They note that the Golden Age was in fact an unusual period, if you look at the last two centuries of economic history.
The release of Alan Greenspan's ghostwritten memoirs The Age of Turbulence has elicited charges that he was not such a great central banker after all.
He also testified that tax cuts are better than spending increases to keep surpluses from growing too large, but that uncertainty is enormous, so that any tax cuts should be canceled if they threatened to bring us back to an age of deficits.
Without compensatory measures - including pre-school education, ideally beginning at a very young age - unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five.
Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape - usually on the Internet - and spreads virally around the globe.
COPENHAGEN - Striking the right balance between preventing global warming and adapting to its effects is one of the most important - and most vexing - policy questions of our age.
PRINCETON - What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age.
The performers were a troupe of young African singers, drummers and dancers, ranging in age from roughly eight to 28.
Fifty-four of them were civilians who didn't take part in the fighting, and 25 were under 18 years of age.
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