ALL meanings of age
age
A a - variable noun age Your age is the number of years that you have lived. 4
- variable noun age The age of a thing is the number of years since it was made. 3
- uncountable noun age Age is the state of being old or the process of becoming older. 3
- verb age When someone ages, or when something ages them, they seem much older and less strong or less alert. 3
- ergative verb age When food or alcohol is aged or when it ages, it is left to get older before being eaten or drunk, so that it develops a better flavour. 3
- countable noun age An age is a period in history. 3
- countable noun age You can say an age or ages to mean a very long time. 3
- noun age the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live 3
- noun age the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc 3
- noun age a period or state of human life 3
- noun age (as modifier) 3
- noun age the latter part of life 3
- noun age a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era 3
- noun age (capital when part of a name) 3
- noun age generation 3
- noun age a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics 3
- noun age the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch 3
- noun age any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages 3
- noun age a relatively long time 3
- noun age the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age 3
- verb age to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged 3
- verb age to begin to seem older 3
- verb age to mature or cause to mature 3
- noun age the time that a person or a thing has existed since birth or beginning 3
- noun age usual or expected life span 3
- noun age a stage of life 3
- noun age the condition of being old; old age 3
- noun age a generation 3
- noun age any interval of geologic time; specif., a subdivision of an epoch corresponding to the rock strata of a stage (sense 13) 3
- noun age any prehistoric cultural period in human development 3
- noun age a period characterized by some person or by some outstanding feature or influence 3
- noun age a long time 3
- intransitive verb age to grow old or show signs of growing old 3
- intransitive verb age to ripen or become mature 3
- verb transitive age to make, or make seem, old or mature 3
- verb transitive age to cause to ripen or become mature over a period of time under fixed conditions 3
- noun age the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years. 1
- noun age a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years. 1
- noun age the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty. 1
- noun age one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age. 1
- noun age advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age. 1
- noun age a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications. 1
- noun age the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age. 1
- noun age a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn. 1
- noun age a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages. 1
- noun age the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years. 1
- noun age Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age. 1
- noun age Geology. a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age. a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed. 1
- noun age any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages. 1
- noun age Cards. Poker. the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge (def 10a). eldest hand. 1