'AGE' definitions:
Definition of 'age'
(from WordNet)
noun
How long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"
noun
An era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" [syn: historic period, age]
noun
A time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld" [syn: age, eld]
noun
A prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn: long time, age, years]
noun
A late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood]
verb
Begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
verb
Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate]
verb
Make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" [ant: rejuvenate]
Definition of 'age'
From: Easton
- Age used to denote the period of a man's life (Gen. 47:28), the maturity of life (John 9:21), the latter end of life (Job 11:17), a generation of the human race (Job 8:8), and an indefinite period (Eph. 2:7; 3:5, 21; Col. 1:26). Respect to be shown to the aged (Lev. 19:32). It is a blessing to communities when they have old men among them (Isa. 65:20; Zech. 8:4). The aged supposed to excel in understanding (Job 12:20; 15:10; 32:4, 9; 1 Kings 12:6, 8). A full age the reward of piety (Job 5:26; Gen. 15:15).
Synonyms of 'age'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abidingness,
- aboriginality,
- aeon,
- ages,
- ancien regime,
- ancientness,
- annus magnus,
- antiquate,
- antiquity,
- atavism,
- become extinct,
- become obsolete,
- blue moon,
- Bronze Age,
- caducity,
- century,
- cheat the undertaker,
- cobwebs of antiquity,
- constancy,
- continuance,
- cycle,
- cycle of indiction,
- Dark Ages,
- date,
- day,
- days,
- decline,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- Depression Era,
- develop,
- diuturnity,
- dodder,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- dust of ages,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- eldership,
- endurance,
- epoch,
- era,
- eternity,
- fade,
- fail,
- florid,
- fossilize,
- fust,
- generation,
- get along,
- get on,
- glacial epoch,
- Golden Age,
- great age,
- great year,
- grow,
- grow old,
- grow up,
- hoary age,
- hoary eld,
- Ice Age,
- indiction,
- inveteracy,
- Iron Age,
- Jacksonian Age,
- lastingness,
- life,
- lifetime,
- long,
- long standing,
- long time,
- long while,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- lose currency,
- maintenance,
- maturate,
- mellow,
- Middle Ages,
- molder,
- month of Sundays,
- New Deal Era,
- obsolesce,
- old age,
- old order,
- old style,
- oldness,
- outdate,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- period of existence,
- perish,
- permanence,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- Platonic year,
- primitiveness,
- primogeniture,
- primordialism,
- primordiality,
- Prohibition Era,
- right smart spell,
- ripe,
- ripen,
- rust,
- senectitude,
- senescence,
- senility,
- seniority,
- shake,
- shrivel,
- Silver Age,
- sink,
- stability,
- standing,
- steadfastness,
- Steel Age,
- Stone Age,
- superannuate,
- survival,
- survivance,
- time,
- totter,
- turn gray,
- turn white,
- venerableness,
- wane,
- waste away,
- wither,
- wizen,
- wrinkle,
- years,
- years on end
Acronyms for 'age'
From: V.E.R.A.
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Words containing 'AGE'
- aged,
- agee,
- ageing,
- aging,
- of age,
- Age of Fishes,
- Age of consent,
- Age of gold,
- Age of invertebrates,
- Age of mammals,
- Age of the tide,
- Brazen age,
- Bronze age,
- Carboniferous age,
- Dark Ages,
- Devonian age,
- Fabulous age,
- Flint age,
- Full age,
- Golden age,
- Heroic Age,
- Ice age,
- Iron age,
- Lawful age,
- Middle Ages,
- Reptilian age,
- Secondary age,
- Silver age,
- Space age,
- Stone age,
- Tertiary age,
- Under-age,
- age bracket,
- age class,
- age group,
- age limit,
- age norm,
- age of majority,
- age of man,
- age of reason,
- age of reptiles,
- age old,
- bone age,
- chronological age,
- come of age,
- developmental age,
- drinking age,
- elizabethan age,
- eolithic age,
- fertilization age,
- fetal age,
- gestational age,
- information age,
- james agee,
- jazz age,
- legal age,
- mental age,
- mesolithic age,
- middle age,
- neolithic age,
- old age,
- paleolithic age,
- tender age,
- victorian age,
- voting age,
- Age of coal plants,
- Middle-age,
- Middle-aged,
- Stone Age man,
- age-old,
- age-related,
- new stone age,
- youth-on-age,
- middle-aged man,
- old-age insurance,
- old-age pension,
- old-age pensioner,
- school-age child,
- age-related macular degeneration,
- small-for-gestational-age infant