Definitions for nonage

nonage non·age

Spelling: [non-ij, noh-nij]
IPA: /ˈnɒn ɪdʒ, ˈnoʊ nɪdʒ/

Nonage is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in nonage (aegnno).

Definitions for nonage

noun

  1. the period of legal minority, or of an age below 21.
  2. any period of immaturity.

Origin of nonage

1350-1400; late Middle English Middle French (see non-, age); replacing Middle English nownage Anglo-French nounage; Middle French as above

Examples for nonage

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage.

Huxley, if I remember rightly, asserted in his nonage that science would even afford us a newer and more enlightened morality.

De ovo, as yet in the nonage thereof; but infants may be men in due time.

The youth in his nonage, and the gray-haired and very aged man were there.

nonage, "the nonage of this gentleman" (N53,d), legal minority.

England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.

Kings in their dotage and princes in their nonage wooed her.

Marriages are usually arranged by mothers in nonage, but consulting the destined bride.

Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage?

Tom is an old friend of mine; I have seen some of his best battles in my nonage.

Word Value for nonage
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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