ages
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ages
- plural of age
- (hyperbolic) A long time.
- It was ages since that wonderful holiday.
- 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 108:
- “He's been gone ages,” she said, and she went with little light steps to the door, opened it, and crossed the passage into his room.
- 2012, Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions, UK: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 250:
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of age
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- than (introduces part of comparison)
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- (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of agir
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agēs
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