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age
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[ noun ] how long something has existed
Examples "it was replaced because of its age" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Stravinsky , nearing the age of eighty , is like a lost and frantic bird , flitting from one abandoned nest to another , searching for a home . ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Is an arbitrary retirement age of 65 actually costing your plant money ? Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such_as tool and die makers can be kept on_the_job for the convenience of the company . And so deadheads on the payroll can be eased out at the earliest possible age . Make sure you have minimum age and time on_the_job requirements tied into your pension plan . |
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[ noun ] (history) an era of history having some distinctive feature
Synonyms Examples "we live in a litigious age" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)His addle-brained knight-errant , self appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke , is , as Cervantes no_doubt intended , a gaunt but gracious symbol of good , moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics , hypocrites and rogues . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The conversation of the characters creates an atmosphere suggesting the usual mixture of pleasures , foibles , irritations , and concerns which would characterize the common life of a normal village in any age . When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man 's worthlessness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon , a weapon designed and used time_and_time_again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state '' . (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)With these gadgets - impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light_bulbs , ticks , and buzzes - he then carries_out a vicious medical con_game , capitalizing on people 's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)1 ) Every age rewrites the events of its history in_terms_of what should have been , creating legends about itself that rationalize contemporary beliefs and excuse contemporary actions . |
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[ noun ] a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
Synonyms Examples "she was now of school age" "tall for his eld" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)The bill is designed to provide special schooling for more deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced cost to the state . Related terms time_of_life majority minority drinking_age voting_age age_of_consent life |
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[ verb ] grow old or older
Examples "She aged gracefully" "we age every day--what a depressing thought!" "Young men senesce" Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Aging but still precocious , French feline enfant_terrible Francoisette_Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again , this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The_Lascivious_Interlude , the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in_love with a middle-aged steam_shovel . |
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[ verb ] begin to seem older; get older
Examples "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)The next time we saw him , he was a changed person ; he had aged thirty years , and his face , the color of tallow , was crisscrossed with wrinkles , as though it had been wrapped in chicken wire . |
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[ verb ] make older
Examples "The death of his child aged him tremendously" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a prolonged period of time
Examples "we've known each other for ages" "I haven't been there for years and years" Related terms |
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[ verb ] get old or older
Synonyms Examples "We age every day--a depressing thought" Related terms |
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[ noun ] late time of life
Synonyms Examples "old age is not for sissies," "he's showing his years" "age hasn't slowed him down at all" "a beard white with eld" "on the brink of geezerhood" |
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