age

  • (noun): The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
  • (noun): The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
  • (noun): One of the stages of life.
  • (noun): The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
  • (noun): A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
  • (noun): A great period in the history of the Earth.
  • (noun): A period of one hundred years; a century.
  • (noun): The people who live during a particular period.
  • (noun): A generation.
  • (noun): A long time.
  • (noun): A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
  • (noun): An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
  • (verb): To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
  • (verb): To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
  • (verb): To categorize by age.
  • (verb): To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
  • the age of infancy
  • the age of consent; the age of discretion
  • the golden age; the age of Pericles
  • the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch
  • There are three ages living in her house.