Definitions for age
age
age
Spelling: [eyj]
IPA: /eɪdʒ/
Age is a 3 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.
You can make 10 anagrams from letters in age (aeg).
Definitions for age
noun
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the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to:
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a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity:
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the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything:
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one of the periods or stages of human life:
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advanced years; old age:
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a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch:
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the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life:
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a generation or a series of generations:
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a great length of time:
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the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species:
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Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
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Geology.
a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature:
a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
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any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
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Cards.
Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge (def 10a).
eldest hand.
Idioms
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of age, Law.
being any of several ages, usually 21 or 18, at which certain legal rights, as voting or marriage, are acquired.
being old enough for full legal rights and responsibilities.
verb (used with object)
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to make old; cause to grow or seem old:
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to bring to maturity or a state fit for use:
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to store (a permanent magnet, a capacitor, or other similar device) so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
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to expose (a dye or dyed cloth) to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
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to stabilize the electrical properties of (a device) by passing current through it.
verb (used without object)
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to grow old:
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to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood:
Origin of age
1225-75; (noun) Middle English Anglo-French, Old French aage, eage, equivalent to aé (Latin aetātem accusative of ae(vi)tās age; aev(um) time, lifetime + -itās -ity) +
Examples for age
Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.
The only member of that household I could marry is not suited to my age.
You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.
Not of age—merely of time; for here was no senility, no quavering or fretful lines.
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
He was exiled at the age of 30 to Tomi, a town south of the delta of the Danube.
“Seventeen, an it please your grace,” said Stephen, in the gruff voice of his age.
Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.
He is the representative of Posterity,—the man of an age to come.