noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
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""What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)"
"Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age."
"the age of infancy"
"the age of consent; the age of discretion"
"to come of age; she is now of age"
"the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age"
"the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs"
"The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age."
"The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch."
"Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation."
"There are three ages living in her house."
"It’s been an age since we last saw you."
"The age of man is three score years and ten."
"He grew fat as he aged."
"His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup."
"Grief ages us."
"We age the whiskey for five years."
"This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique."
"There are several ways to age trees."
"I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me."
"Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so."
"One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."
"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."
The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
Common synonyms include: get on, mature, senesce, years, eon, -ing.
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.
Pronounced /eɪd͡ʒ/.
From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge. Displaced native Old English ieldu. The verb is from Middle English agen, from the noun. Originally found mostly as a participial adjective, probably an adjective in -ed, derived from the noun, reanalyzed to create a verb; perhaps modeled on such pairs as Latin senēscō (seneō; verb) / senex (adjective) and Middle French vieillir (verb) / vieil (adjective). Also compare Old French se aagier, eogier (“become of age”).
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