| 单词 | age |
| 释义 | Word Frequency age(eɪdʒ) noun 1. the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live the age of a tree what age was he when he died? the age of a horse is up to thirty years 2. the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc the age of this table is 200 years 3. a. a period or state of human life he should know better at his age the tricky age when peer pressure comes into play b. (as modifier) age group 4. the latter part of life 5. a. a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era b. (capital when part of a name) the Middle Ages the Space Age 6. generation the Edwardian age 7. geology, palaeontology a. a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics the age of reptiles b. the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch 8. mythology any of the successive periods in the legendary history of humankind, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages 9. (often plural) informal a relatively long time they spent an age at the showroom I've been waiting ages 10. psychology the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age See also achievement age, mental age 11. age before beauty 12. of age verbWord forms: ages, ageing, aging or aged 13. to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged 14. to begin to seem older he seems to have aged a lot in the past year 15. brewing to mature or cause to mature Word origin C13: via Old French from Vulgar Latin aetatīcum (unattested), from Latin aetās, ultimately from aevum lifetime; compare aeonWord Frequency -agesuffix forming nouns 1. indicating a collection, set, or group acreage baggage 2. indicating a process or action or the result of an action haulage passage breakage 3. indicating a state, condition, or relationship bondage parentage 4. indicating a house or place orphanage 5. indicating a charge or fee postage 6. indicating a rate dosage mileage Word origin from Old French, from Late Latin -āticum, noun suffix, neuter of -āticus, adjectival suffix, from -ātus -ate1 + -icus -ic |
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