AGE

noun ages

1. 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.; see also the usage notes) "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
2. uncountable The state of being old; the latter part of life. Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
3. countable Any particular stage of life. the age of infancy
4. 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
5. uncountable Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities. to come of age; she is now of age
6. countable A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others. the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
7. countable, uncountable The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished. the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs
8. countable A great period in the history of the Earth. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
9. countable 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.
10. countable, uncountable 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. 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.
11. countable A period of one hundred years; a century.
12. countable, dated, possibly, uncommon A generation. There are three ages living in her house.
13. countable, excessive A long time. It’s been an age since we last saw you.
14. 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.
15. countable The entitlement 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.

verb ages · aging · ageing · aged

1. intransitive To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age. He grew fat as he aged.
2. intransitive, usually To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way. His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
3. transitive To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. Grief ages us.
4. transitive To allow to mature. We age the whiskey for five years.
5. transitive To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age. This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
6. transitive To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence). There are several ways to age trees.
7. transitive To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one. I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
8. figuratively, transitive To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt. Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
9. transitive To categorize by age. One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

Similar: mature, elden, age, eld, date, get on, grow up, obsolesce, olden, season, senesce, superannuate

noun AGEs

1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of advanced glycation end-product.advanced glycation end-product
2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of agarose gel electrophoresis.agarose gel electrophoresis
3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of allyl glycidyl ether.allyl glycidyl ether
4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of arterial gas embolism.arterial gas embolism