old age

English

Etymology

From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old +‎ age. Displaced wholly non-native Middle English vilesse (“old age”) (borrowed from Old French villesce, vieillece (“old age”)) and senectute (“old age”) (from Latin senectūs (“old age”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ōld āj

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: old age

Noun

old age (uncountable)

2. The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.

   Synonyms: golden years; codgerhood, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

   People often become hard of hearing in old age.

   It’s old age.

3. A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.

Derived terms

• old age home
• old age pension

Translations

latter part of life

• Arabic: شَيْخُوخَة f (šayḵūḵa), عُجُوز m (ʕujūz), كِبْر سِنّ m (kibr sinn)
• Aragonese: vielluz
• Armenian: ծերություն (hy) (cerutʻyun)
• Aromanian: bitãrneatsã f
• Azerbaijani: qocalıq
• Belarusian: ста́расць f (stárascʹ)
• Bulgarian: ста́рост (bg) f (stárost)
• Catalan: vellesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晚年 (zh) (wǎnnián), 老年 (zh) (lǎonián), 老年期 (zh) (lǎoniánqī)

• Czech: stáří (cs) n
• Danish: alderdom c
• Dutch: ouderdom (nl) m
• Egyptian: (jꜣw)
• Esperanto: maljuneco, oldeco
• Finnish: vanhuus (fi)
• French: troisième âge (fr) f, vieillesse (fr) f
• Galician: vellez f
• Georgian: სიბერე (sibere)
• German: hohes Alter n, Alter (de) n

  Alemannic German: Altar

• Greek: γεράματα (el) n pl (gerámata), γηρατειά (el) n pl (girateiá), τρίτη ηλικία f (tríti ilikía)

  Ancient: γῆρας n (gêras)

• Hebrew: זִקְנָה (he) f (zikná), זְקוּנִים m pl (z'kuním) (biblical)
• Hindi: बुढ़ापा (hi) m (buṛhāpā), वृद्धावस्था (hi) f (vŕddhāvasthā)
• Hungarian: öregség (hu), öregkor (hu), időskor (hu)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: masa tua (id)
• Irish: foirfeacht f, aostacht f
• Italian: vecchiaia (it) f
• Japanese: 晩年 (ja) (ばんねん, bannen), 老年 (ja) (ろうねん, rōnen)
• Kazakh: кәрілік (kärılık), қариялық (qariälyq), қарттық (qarttyq), шалдық (şaldyq)
• Korean: 노년(老年) (nonyeon), 만년(晩年) (ko) (mannyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پیری (ckb) (pîrî)

• Kyrgyz: карылык (ky) (karılık)
• Ladin: vedleza f
• Latin: senectūs f, senium (la) n
• Latvian: vecums m, vecība f
• Macedonian: ста́рост f (stárost)
• Malayalam: വാർദ്ധക്യം (ml) (vāṟddhakyaṁ)
• Manx: shenn eash f
• Maori: koroheketanga, nehe, mātāpūpututanga, kaumātuatanga
• Navajo: są́
• Ngazidja Comorian: undru ɗuhazi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alderdom (no) m

  Nynorsk: alderdom m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: старость f (starostĭ)

• Old English: æfteryldo f
• Ottoman Turkish: كبر (kiber)
• Persian: پیری (fa) (piri), زرمان (zarmân) (archaic), کهنسالی (kohansâli) (formal), سالخوردگی (fa) (sâlxordegi)
• Polabian: storüst f
• Polish: starość (pl) f
• Portuguese: velhice (pt) f
• Romanian: bătrânețe (ro) f
• Russian: ста́рость (ru) f (stárostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: старост f

  Latin: starost (sh) f

• Sicilian: vicchiania f
• Slovak: staroba f
• Slovene: starost (sl) f
• Spanish: vejez (es) f, tercera edad (es) f
• Swahili: ushaibu (sw), uzee (sw)
• Swedish: ålderdom (sv) c
• Tajik: солхурдаги (solxurdag-i), пирӣ (tg) (piri)
• Telugu: వృద్ధాప్యము (te) (vr̥ddhāpyamu), ముసలితనము (te) (musalitanamu)
• Thai: วัยสูงอายุ (wai sŏong aayú)
• Tocharian B: ktsaitstsäññe
• Turkish: yaşlılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: ста́рість f (stáristʹ)
• Urdu: بڑھاپا m (buṛhāpā)
• Uzbek: keksalik (uz), qarilik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tuổi già (vi)
• Yiddish: זקונים pl (zkunem), זקנה f (zikne), אַלטערהייט f (alterheyt), אַלטקייט f (altkeyt)

Anagrams

• age-old, gaoled, geodal, goaled