| age | |
| 1. n. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. | |
| 2. n. The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive. | |
| 3. n. One of the stages of life. | |
| the age of infancy | |
| 4. n. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested. | |
| the age of consent; the age of discretion | |
| 5. n. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others. | |
| the golden age; the age of Pericles | |
| 6. n. A great period in the history of the Earth. | |
| the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch | |
| 7. n. A period of one hundred years; a century. | |
| 8. n. The people who live during a particular period. | |
| 9. n. A generation. | |
| There are three ages living in her house. | |
| 10. n. (hyperbole) A long time. | |
| It’s been an age since we last saw you. | |
| 11. n. (geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts. | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part. | |
| What is the present age of a man, or of the earth? | |
| 14. n. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities. | |
| to come of age; she is now of age | |
| 15. n. An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority. | |
| Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself. | |
| 16. v. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | |
| Grief ages us. | |
| 17. v. (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. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age. | |
| One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age. | |
| He grew fat as he aged. | |
