age /āj/

1. Duration of life
2. The time during which a person or thing has lived or existed
3. The time of life reached
4. Mature years
5. Legal maturity
6. The time or fact of being old
7. Equivalence in development to the average of an actual age
8. A period of time
9. Any great division of world, human, or individual history
10. A generation
11. A century
12. (esp in pl) a long time, however short (informal)

1. To grow old
2. To develop the characteristics of old age
3. To mature

1. To make to seem old or to be like the old
2. To determine the age of

aged /ājˈid/ adjective

1. Advanced in age, old
2. /ājd/ of the age of
3. Subjected to aging, eg aged timbers

Old people

agedness /ājˈid-nis/ noun

The condition of being aged

ageˈism noun

Discrimination on grounds of age

ageˈist noun and adjective

ageˈless adjective

1. Never growing old, perpetually young
2. Timeless

ageˈlessness noun

ageˈlong adjective

Lasting an age

agˈing or ageˈing noun

1. The process of growing old or developing qualities of the old
2. Maturing
3. Change in properties that occurs in certain metals at atmospheric temperature after heat treatment or cold-working

ageˈ-bracket noun

The people between particular ages, taken as a group

age group noun

A group of people of a similar age

age hardening noun

Hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over time

age limit noun

The age under or over which one may not do something

ageˈ-long adjective

Having been in existence for a long time

age of consent see under consent

age of discretion see under discretion

ageˈ-old adjective

Very old, ancient

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