age

See also Age, -age, âge, âgé, and äge

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English age, from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetātem, accusative form of aetās, from aevum (“lifetime”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (plural ages)

  1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
  2. (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.
    What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
  3. (uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
    Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
    Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  4. (countable) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
  5. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
    to come of age
    he (or she) is of age
  6. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
    the age of consent
    the age of discretion
  7. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
    the golden age
    the age of Pericles
  8. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
    The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
    The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch.
  9. (countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
  10. The people who live at a particular period.
  11. (countable) A generation.
    There are three ages living in her house.
  12. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
    It's been an age since we last saw you.

Synonyms

Derived terms

term derived from the noun "age"

Translations

whole duration of a being
part of the duration of a being or thing between its beginning and any given time
latter part of life
one of the stages of life
time of life when one attains full person rights
time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested
particular period of time in history
great period in the history of the Earth
century — see century
people who live at a particular period
generation
a long time
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Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

  1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
    Grief ages us.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
    Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
  3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
    One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
  4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
    He grew fat as he aged.
    • Holland
      They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
    • Landor
      I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.

Translations

transitive: cause to grow old
intransitive: become old
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French

Noun

age m (plural ages)

  1. beam
  2. shaft
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Japanese

Romanization

age

  1. See あげ
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Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV ("to make sour, to rot"). Compare Assan bar-ak ("rotten") and Arin bar-oje ("rotten").

Adjective

age

  1. rotten

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Latin

Verb

age

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of agō
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Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. (anatomy) face

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
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Occitan

Noun

age m (plural ages)

  1. age
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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”). Compare Old English ēaġe, Old Saxon and Old Dutch ōga, Old High German ouga, Old Norse auga, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augo).

Noun

āge n

  1. eye

Declension

Declension of age (weak, neuter)
singular plural
nominative āge āga, āg(e)ne
accusative āge āga, āg(e)ne
genitive āga āgena
dative āga āg(n)um, āg(n)em

Descendants

  • North Frisian: ug
  • West Frisian: each
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Portuguese

Verb

age

  1. third-person singular present indicative of agir
  2. second-person singular imperative of agir
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