age
- Noun. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
- Noun. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time.
- Noun. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
- Noun. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
- Noun. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- 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 century; the period of one hundred years.
- Noun. The people who live at a particular period.
- Noun. Hence, a generation.
- Noun. (hyperbole) A long time.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- Verb. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- Verb. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
- Verb. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
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