Definitions for ages

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ages age

Spelling: [eyj]

IPA: /eɪdʒ/

Ages is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in ages (aegs).

Definitions for ages

noun

1. 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:
2. 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:
3. the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything:
4. one of the periods or stages of human life:
5. advanced years; old age:
6. a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch:
7. the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life:
8. a generation or a series of generations:
9. a great length of time:
10. the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species:
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
14. 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.

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 ages

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 ages

There should be a series of Coming of ages for every individual.

Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

Both sexes, and all ages, are busy at all times in the mysteries of the gaming-table.

Overall, young African Americans are killed by cops 4.5 times more often than people of other races and ages.

We have exacted from him what is at variance with the fixed Chinese policy of ages.

There are about 80 million Americans between the ages of 18-34 and next year they are expected to spend $2.45 trillion.

According to a 2013 Pew Research Center study 28 percent of Jews ages 18 to 49 keep kosher inside their homes.

"Grandma Loekermann did it at the convent, ages ago," she told him.

She had much to learn in this direction yet—as who has not who is ages in advance of life?

According to a 2012 UNAIDS report, youth between the ages of 16 to 25 account for 40 percent of all new adult HIV infections.