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ages

/ˈeɪ.dʒɪz/

noun

Meaning

  • The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.

  • The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.

  • One of the stages of life.

    "the age of infancy"

  • 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.

    "the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch"

  • A period of one hundred years; a century.

  • The people who live during a particular period.

  • A generation.

    "There are three ages living in her house."

  • A long time.

    "It’s been an age since we last saw you."

  • A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.

  • 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.

  • 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?"

  • Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

    "to come of age; she is now of age"

  • An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

    "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

Synonyms

lifespan,
lifetime,
dotage,
eld,
old age,
eternity,
yonks,
epoch,
time,
eld,
centennium,
yearhundred

verb

Meaning

  • To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

    "Grief ages us."

  • 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."

  • To categorize by age.

    "One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."

  • To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

    "He grew fat as he aged."

Synonyms

mature,
elden

noun

Meaning

  • A long time.