AGE
Definition:
- [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"
Synonyms: historic period
- [noun] 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"
Synonyms: eld
- [noun] 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: old years, eld, geezerhood
- [noun] a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
Synonyms: long time, years
- [verb] begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
- [verb] grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day
Synonyms: senesce, get on, mature, maturate
- [verb] make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
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Related Words:
- turn
- fossilize, fossilise
- dote
- chronological age
- bone age
- developmental age
- fetal age, fertilization age, gestational age
- mental age
- oldness
- newness
- oldness
- youngness
- Elizabethan age
- Victorian age
- antiquity
- golden age
- Middle Ages, Dark Ages
- Renaissance
- industrial revolution, technological revolution
- Reign of Terror
- reign
- turn of the century
- Harlem Renaissance
- New Deal
- Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period
- Restoration
- age of consent
- majority, legal age
- minority, nonage
- drinking age
- voting age
- dotage, second childhood, senility
- long
- month of Sundays
- eon, aeon
- blue moon
- year dot
