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The definition of age
15 Definitions of: age
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- noun, the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live
- noun, the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc
- noun, a) a period or state of human life b) (as modifier)
- noun, the latter part of life
- noun, a) a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era b) (capital when part of a name)
- noun, generation
- noun, geology palaeontol a) a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics b) the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch
- noun, myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages
- noun, a relatively long time
- noun, psychol 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
- noun, age before beauty (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people
- noun, of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)
- verb, to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged
- verb, to begin to seem older
- verb, brewing to mature or cause to mature
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| Synonyms: | time, generation, mature, season, deteriorate, year, days, lifetime, experience, maturity | And more... |
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| Antonyms: | youth |
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