Definitions for aged

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aged a·ged

Spelling: [ey-jid for 1, 2, 5, 6; eyjd for 1, 3, 4]

IPA: /ˈeɪ dʒɪd for 1, 2, 5, 6; eɪdʒd for 1, 3, 4/

Aged is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in aged (adeg).

Definitions for aged

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the):
2. 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:
3. 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:
4. the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything:
5. one of the periods or stages of human life:
6. advanced years; old age:
7. a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch:
8. the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life:
9. a generation or a series of generations:
10. a great length of time:
11. the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species:
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
15. Cards. Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge (def 10a). eldest hand.

Idioms

1. 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.

adjective

1. having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old:
2. pertaining to or characteristic of old age:
3. of the age of:
4. brought to maturity or mellowness, as wine, cheese, or wood:
5. Physical Geography. old; approaching the state of peneplain.

verb (used with object)

1. to make old; cause to grow or seem old:
2. to bring to maturity or a state fit for use:
3. to store (a permanent magnet, a capacitor, or other similar device) so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
4. to expose (a dye or dyed cloth) to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
5. to stabilize the electrical properties of (a device) by passing current through it.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow old:
2. to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood:

Origin of aged

1375-1425; late Middle English. See age, -ed²

Examples for aged

The aged philosopher endeavoured to speak, but his voice was tremulous with emotion.

Sharp always wanted to be an actor: his first role, aged 7, was as Piglet in Winnie-The-Pooh.

There was, in every room, an aged smell, grown faint with confinement.

The aged mother of this family, and the three daughters, are still living.

He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.

She became extremely unpopular and was widely blamed for the King's growing weakness as he aged.

But when she returned to Selma in 1962 to care for her aged mother, she lost that right.

The energy is clearly growing to rid this country of the fear-based rule of obtuse, aged white men.

He so humble, so aged, so loth to take our money—and yet a villain and a cheat.

He is aged for such a journey, if you came from the Forest since morn.