-age Definition
age
See also Age, -age, âge, âgé, and äge
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English
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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”) (from Old English eldo, ieldo (“age”)).
Noun
age (plural ages)
- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time.
- What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
- 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.
- One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
- 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
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- the age of consent
- the age of discretion
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- the golden age
- the age of Pericles
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
- A century; the period of one hundred years.
- The people who live at a particular period.
- Hence, a generation.
- There are three ages living in her house.
- (hyperbolic) A long time.
- It's been an age since we last saw you.
Synonyms
Derived terms
term derived from the noun "age"
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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.
- Grief ages us.
- (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.
- (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
- One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
- (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- He grew fat as he aged.
Translations
transitive: cause to grow old
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See also
- Age on Wikiquote.en.Wikiquote
- Appendix:Age by decade
Statistics
External links
- age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- age in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
French
Noun
age m. (plural ages)
Japanese
Noun
age (hiragana あげ)
Kott
Etymology
From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV ("to make sour, to rot"). Compare Assan bar-ak ("rotten") and Arin bar-oje ("rotten").
Adjective
age
Related terms
Latin
Verb
age
- second-person singular present active imperative of agō
Mapudungun
Noun
age (using Raguileo Alphabet)
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Occitan
Noun
age m. (plural ages)
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *augô.
Noun
āge n.
Declension
Declension of age (weak, neuter)| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | āge | āga, āg(e)ne |
| accusative | āge | āga, āg(e)ne |
| genitive | āga | āgena |
| dative | āga | āg(n)um, āg(n)em |
Descendants
- West Frisian: each
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Look up age in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Age may refer to: The length of time that an organism has lived:
- Ageing (aging), the social, cultural, and economic factors of human age and aging
- Senescence, the biology and science of aging
- Age (journal), an international peer-reviewed journal operated by Springer.
- Psychology and Aging (journal), an international peer-reviews journal operated by the American Psychological Association
- Åge, a Norwegian given name
- Agé, a god from the mythology of the Fon people; the son of Mawu-Lisa
- One of the D'ni Ages, the fictional universe in the Myst series of games.
- Agenore Incrocci, an Italian screenwriter.
- Age (model theory), the class of all finitely generated structures which are embeddable in a structure A in mathematics
- âge Japanese company
- The Age is a daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia.
- Angel Game Engine was an engine used in various games made by Rockstar San Diego. It was the basis for the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine.
- The language Esimbi spoken in parts of Cameroon
- IATA Airport Code AGE for Airport Wangerooge
- Åge, (given name page)
- Aage, (given name page)
- Advanced glycation end product, a class of spontaneously modified molecules whose modification begins with an initial glycation
- A. G. Edwards, a brokerage firm
- Agarose gel electrophoresis, a method used in molecular biology
- American Aging Association (abbreviated AGE, although not an acronym)
- Applied general equilibrium
- Arterial gas embolism
- Agricultural & General Engineers, a group of companies
See also
- All pages beginning with "Age"
- All pages with titles containing "Age"
- Aging (disambiguation)
- AIG (disambiguation)
- AG (disambiguation)
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