old age
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old age¹
Where it comes from
From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old + age. Displaced wholly non-native Middle English vilesse (“old age”) (borrowed from Old French villesce, vieillece (“old age”)) and senectute (“old age”) (from Latin senectūs (“old age”)).
noun
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The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
People often become hard of hearing in old age.
Similar: golden years, codgerhood, eld, age, chair days, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom, old age, oldhood, senescence, senectitude
- A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.
Opposite: youth
Old Age²
proper noun
- The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement. I have often wondered what's so "new" about the New Age; its basic tenets that we can completely create our own reality and that everything happens for a reason, to teach some sort of lesson, have always seemed to me to carry the same message as the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosop
Thesaurus
noun
Opposite: youth
Translations
Every language
noun latter part of life
| Español | vejez, tercera edad |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 노년 nonyeon, 만년 mannyeon |
| 日本語 | 晩年 bannen, 老年 rōnen |
| 中文 | 晚年 wǎnnián, 老年 lǎonián, 老年期 lǎoniánqī |
| हिन्दी | बुढ़ापा buṛhāpā, वृद्धावस्था vŕddhāvasthā |
| Kiswahili | ushaibu, uzee |
| Português | velhice, terceira idade, melhor idade |
| Français | troisième âge, vieillesse |
| Deutsch | hohes Alter, Alter |
| Italiano | vecchiaia |
| Ελληνικά | γεράματα gerámata, γηρατειά girateiá, τρίτη ηλικία tríti ilikía |
| Română | bătrânețe |
| Русский | ста́рость stárostʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | tuổi già |
| العربية | شَيْخُوخَة šayḵūḵa, عُجُوز ʕujūz, كِبْر سِنّ kibr sinn |
| עברית | זִקְנָה zikná, זְקוּנִים z'kuním |
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title = {old age},
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