Age

Word AGE
Character 3
Hyphenation age
Pronunciations /eɪd͡ʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Age"

What do we mean by age?

The length of time that a person or thing has existed. noun

The time of life when a person becomes qualified to assume certain civil and personal rights and responsibilities, usually at 18 or 21 years; legal age. noun

One of the stages of life. noun

The state of being old; old age. noun

A period of time marked by a distinctive characteristic, achievement, or figure. noun

A period in the history of the earth, usually shorter than an epoch. noun

The period of history during which a person lives. noun

A generation. noun

An extended period of time. noun

To cause to become old or to show the signs of becoming old. intransitive verb

To cause to mature or ripen under controlled conditions. intransitive verb

To change (the characteristics of a device) through use, especially to stabilize (an electronic device). intransitive verb

To become old or show signs of becoming old. intransitive verb

To develop a certain quality of ripeness; become mature. intransitive verb

To reach an age, 18 or 21 years, for example, at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from the state. phrasal verb

(come of age) To reach maturity. idiom

To grow old; assume the appearance of old age: as, he ages rapidly.

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 time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

A great period in the history of the Earth.

A period of one hundred years; a century.

The people who live during a particular period.

A generation.

A long time.

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.

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

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Age

The word "age" in example sentences

People may differ in other respects as to the designation by which the age should be characterized; but we believe all will agree that it is a _tax-hating age_. ❋ Various (N/A)

At twenty-one they attain the age of majority, when they are said to be _of age_. ❋ Andrew W. Young (N/A)

But the same term is here applied to objects of the same kind, differing not essentially even in age; we say _age_, inasmuch as in the three great divisions, or periods, of human life, namely, childhood, youth, and maturity, the characteristic conditions of each are so ❋ Washington Allston (1811)

II. iv.49 (185,2) [old age] The _old age_ is the _ages past_, the times of simplicity. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

When they are dead, thou'lt live from age to age*. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

SET @age = DATEDIFF (CURDATE (), bd); #age in days

_Mademoiselle_ -- as Miss O'Faley was called, in honour of her French parentage and education, and in commemoration of her having at different periods spent above half her life in France, looking for an estate that could never he found -- Mademoiselle was dressed in all the peculiarities of the French dress of that day; she was of that indefinable age, which the French describe by the happy phrase of "une femme _d'un certain age_," and which Miss O'Faley happily translated, "a woman of _no particular age_." ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

$sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number' WHERE id2 = $id2"; ❋ Kunyomi (2010)

$sql = "UPDATE contacts SET name = '$name', email = '$email', age = '$age', birthday = '$birthday', address = '$address', number = '$number', uploadedfile = '$uploadedfile' WHERE id2 = $id2"; ❋ Kunyomi (2010)

$c-authenticate ({username = 'myusername', password = 'mypassword'}); my $age = $c-user-get ( 'age'); ❋ Unknown (2010)

ComVisibleAttribute (True) > _ Public Class Person Public Sub New (ByVal firstName As String, ByVal age As Integer) Me. _firstName = firstName Me. _lastName = lastName Me. _age = age End Sub Private _firstName As ❋ Unknown (2009)

2 Saturnine B---- n, the author of 'the stage,' a Poem, on hearing the day after her marriage with the banker, a conversation relative to her age, said he was sure the party were all in error, as there could be no doubt the lady was on the previous night _under age_. ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)

When I was little being any age with TWENTY attached seemed so so so so old so grown up and I suppose in a lot of ways I have all of the responsibility I thought I’d have at this age… but I still don’t feel a lot older. ❋ The-moo (2006)

I say that your prince has knowledge of some secret, accursed drug that can call back youth or make actual age -- _age_, do you understand -- just as we of Yaque bring both flowers and fruit to swift maturity! " ❋ Zona Gale (1906)

"At my age (for it is of no use, nephew, for us to deny our years when any Peerage guide must reveal them pretty closely to the curious), and I am this month passing sixty-nine, at my _age_ the charge of two high-spirited young Females, in whom conventional education has failed to subdue Aspirations for worldly happiness whilst it has left them somewhat inexperienced in the Conventions of Society, I find a _little trying_. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)

There is (1.) _The age of popular and unconscious morality_; (2.) _The transitional, skeptical, or sophistical age_; and (3.) _The philosophic or conscious age of morality_. [ ❋ Unknown (1852)

III. ii.26 (242,6) the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure] The _age_ of the _time_ can hardly pass. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

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