单词 | age set |
释义 | > as lemmasage set age set n. Cultural Anthropology and Sociology the people belonging to a particular age group or range in a community, usually one of a number of stratified bands that defines the social status and role of those within it; cf. age grade n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age group age grouping1862 age group1876 age grade1894 age set1929 1929 Man Jan. 21/2 There are three age-sets to a generation. 1954 J. G. Peristiany in Instit. Primitive Society iv. 40 The initiation rituals..provide him with an age-set; that is, with a group of age-mates who remain his social co-evals through life. 2009 B.-A. Scharfstein Art without Borders v. 414 At the terrifying initiation itself, the boys of the age-set being initiated are symbolically killed. < as lemmas |
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