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Definition age
Etymology
From Middle English age, borrowed from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?tem, accusative form of aet?s, from aevum (“lifetime”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age”)).
Noun
age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)
- (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- (countable) One of the stages of life.
- (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
- (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
- (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
- (countable) A generation.
- (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
- (countable, geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
- (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
Verb
age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)
- (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
- (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
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