age


Definition: Meaning of, age in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / eɪdʒ /

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age ages
  1. how old [uncountable and countable] the number of years someone has lived or something has existed
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  2. legal age [uncountable] the age when you are legally old enough to do something
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  3. period of life [uncountable and countable] one of the particular periods of someone's life [↪  old age, middle age, teenage]
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  4. being old [uncountable] the state of being old
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  5. period of history [countable usually singular] a particular period of history
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  6. ages [plural] also an age informal especially British English a long time
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  7. come of age to reach the age when you are legally considered to be a responsible adult
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  8. come of age if something comes of age, it reaches a stage of development at which people accept it as being important, valuable etc
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
age aged aged
Present Participle Third Person Singular
aging or ageing ages
  1. [intransitive and transitive] to start looking older or to make someone or something look older
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  2. [intransitive] to become older
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  3. [intransitive and transitive] to improve and develop in taste over a period of time, or to allow food or alcohol to do this
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age used in phrases

  • Age Concern
    1. a British CHARITY organization that helps old people
  • Age of Enlightenment, the
    1. a period in European history, in the 18th century, when educated people thought that beliefs should depend on reason and scientific proof
  • Age of Fishes (noun)
    1. from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites
  • Age of Mammals (noun)
    1. approximately the last 63 million years
  • Age of Man (noun)
    1. last 2 million years
  • Age of Reason (noun)
    1. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
  • Age of Reptiles (noun)
    1. from 230 million to 63 million years ago
  • Bronze Age (noun)
    1. the Bronze Age the time, between about 6000 and 4000 years ago, when bronze was used for making tools, weapons etc
  • Elizabethan age (noun)
    1. a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
  • Eolithic Age (noun)
    1. the earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture
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