age
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.
Displaced native Old English ieldu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editage (countable and uncountable, plural ages)
- (countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.)
- "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
- What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
- We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.
- What is the present age of the earth?
- 2013 July 1, Peter Wilby, “Finland’s education ambassador spreads the word”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 16 July 2017; republished as “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, London, 2013 July 19, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.
- 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:
- Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- (countable) Any particular stage of life.
- the age of infancy
- (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- the age of consent; the age of discretion
- (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- Synonyms: epoch, time, era; see also Thesaurus:era
- the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
- 1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, in OSFAN[2], volume 10, Chapter 3½, page 33:
- Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings [sic].
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel: The world’s thirst for oil could be nearing a peak. That is bad news for producers, excellent for everyone else.”, in The Economist[3], volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 1 August 2013:
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
- The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
- the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs
- (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
- The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
- (countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
- The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- 1911 April 10, The Evening News, Sydney, page 8, column 2:
- Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.
- (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
- Synonym: centennium
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
- (countable, uncommon, possibly dated) A generation.
- There are three ages living in her house.
- (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
- Synonyms: eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
- It’s been an age since we last saw you.
- (countable) lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
- The age of man is three score years and ten.
- Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse
- 1872, George Duncan Gibb, The Physical Condition of Centenarians, as Derived from Personal Observation in Nine Genuine Examples, London, page 13:
- The CHAIRMAN said if Lord Bacon had asserted that man's age exceeded that of all other living creatures, he must have included the patriarchs in his calculation. Without doubt the age of many animals exceeded that of man. [...] Indeed, if the assumed age of the patriarchs be correct, it is against our own experience, it being an admitted fact that the duration of human life has increased. The age of the patriarchs was by some attributed to the effect of certain waters upon the cartilages.
- (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
Derived terms
edit- achievement age
- act one's age
- afterage
- age-adjustment
- age adjustment
- age before beauty
- age class
- age compression
- aged
- age difference
- age discrimination
- age distribution
- ageful
- age gap
- age grade
- agegraphic
- age group
- age identity
- ageing, aging
- age is just a number
- ageism
- ageist
- ageistic
- ageless
- age limit
- age-long
- agelong
- age-mate
- Age of Aquarius
- age of consent
- age of criminal responsibility
- age of discretion
- Age of Enlightenment
- age of extinction
- age of judgement
- age of judgment
- age of majority
- Age of Reason
- age of reason
- Age of Sail
- Age of Steam
- age-old
- age play
- ageplay
- age rating
- age regression
- age regressor
- age-reversal
- ages
- age set
- age spot
- age-standardization
- age standardization
- age standardized rate
- agewise
- agism
- all ages
- all ages
- an egg's age
- antiager
- atomic age, Atomic Age
- awkward age
- be ages with
- bone age
- bottom age
- bottom-age
- brazen age
- bronze age
- Bronze Age
- chronological age
- Church Age
- come of age, coming of age
- coming-of-age
- coon's age
- crow's age
- cyberage
- dark age, Dark Ages
- dark ages
- darke age
- day-age
- day and age, in this day and age
- day's age
- digital age
- dog's age
- drinking age
- emotional age
- for the ages
- for the ages
- full age
- golden age
- health and fitness age
- heroic age
- hog age
- ice age
- Industrial Age
- info age
- iron age
- Iron Age
- jazz age
- jet age
- legal age
- look one's age
- mature-age student
- median age
- mental age
- midage
- middle-age
- middle age
- Middle Ages
- middle ages
- modern age
- multiage
- new age
- new-age
- New Age
- new age traveller
- nonage
- nuclear age
- of a certain age
- of age
- old-age
- one age with
- overage
- prehistoric age
- radiometric age
- reading age
- ripe old age
- school age
- school-age
- show one's age
- silver age
- space age, space-age
- steam age
- Stone Age
- stone age
- stone-age
- teen-age
- teenage, teenager
- third age
- top-age
- top age
- under age, underage
- unto the ages of ages
- voting age
- weight for age
- with ages
- youth-on-age
Translations
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Verb
editage (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)
- (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- He grew fat as he aged.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations:
- I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there. Sober thinking brings them
- 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
- As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
- (intransitive, informal, of a statement, prediction) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
- His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
- (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- Grief ages us.
- (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
- (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
- One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
- (transitive) To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
- 1992 June 14, This Week with David Brinkley (television production), spoken by [James?] Carville, via ABC:
- Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probably aging myself now, okay?
- 1998 Fall, Mare Freed, “Aluhana”, in The Antioch Review, volume 56, number 4:
- To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sure ages her.
Synonyms
edit- (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
- (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age
Derived terms
editTranslations
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See also
edit- age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Appendix:Age by decade
Further reading
edit- “age”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “age”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “age”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editDanish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, which is also the source of Latin agō (whence also Danish agere), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editage (past tense agede, past participle aget)
- (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
- (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport
Conjugation
editFurther reading
edit- “age” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
editEtymology
editCa. 1800, from a dialectal (southern Oïl or Franco-Provençal) form of haie, from Frankish *haggju. Cognate with English hedge, which see for more. Doublet of haie and quai.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editage m (plural ages)
Further reading
edit- “age”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editVerb
editage
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of agir:
Irish
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editPreposition
editage
- Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
- Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.
Japanese
editRomanization
editage
Kott
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).
Adjective
editage
Related terms
editLatin
editEtymology
editImperative form of agō
Interjection
editage
Verb
editage
Mapudungun
editNoun
editage (Raguileo spelling)
References
edit- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editage (plural ages)
- The age of someone (or rarely something); how old someone is.
- The correct or traditional age for something (especially the age of maturity)
- Old age or senescence; the state of being old or elderly.
- The life of something or someone; an extent of existence.
- A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
- Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
- (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is a particular age.
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “āǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editage
- Alternative form of awe
Norwegian Nynorsk
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz. Cognates include English awe.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editage m (definite singular agen, indefinite plural agar, definite plural agane)
Etymology 2
editAlternative forms
editVerb
editage (present tense agar, past tense aga, past participle aga, passive infinitive agast, present participle agande, imperative age/ag)
References
edit- “age” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “aga”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[4] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “Agje”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[5] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
Anagrams
editOld English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editāge
- inflection of āgan:
Old Frisian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ēage, Old Saxon ōga and Old Dutch ōga.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editāge n
Inflection
editDeclension of āge
(neuter n-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | āge | āgene, āgne |
genitive | āga | āgana, āgena |
dative | āga | āgum, āgem āgenum, āgenem |
accusative | āge | āgene, āgne |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Portuguese
editVerb
editage
- inflection of agir:
Scots
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English age, from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editage (plural ages)
Verb
editage (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle agin, simple past aged, past participle aged)
- to age
References
edit- “age, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
editVerb
editage
- inflection of agir:
Ternate
editPronunciation
editNoun
editage
- the trunk of a tree, tree trunk
- levee, embankment
References
edit- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Yoruba
editPronunciation
editNoun
editàgé
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