(countable) The amount of time that somebeing has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured innumber ofyears; alternatively inmonths,days,hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
"What is theage of your oldest child?" — "He's ten."(ten years old)
What were theirages at the time of their marriage?
We can determine theage of fossils using radiometric dating.
What is the presentage of the earth?
I have a daughter yourage, and I tell her when I was yourage I was already working.
You should play with kids the sameage as you.
At yourage, your mom and I'd already found a job.
2013 July 1,Peter Wilby, “Finland’s education ambassador spreads the word”, inThe Guardian[1], London, archived fromthe original on16 July 2017; republished as “Finland spreads word on schools”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, London, 2013 July 19, page30:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling atage seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until theage of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
(uncountable) The state of beingold; the latter part of life.
Feel awfully aboutScott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth tosenility without going throughmanhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth andage.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come withage, sometimesage just shows up all by itself.
the goldenage of cinema; the firstage of colonialism; a bygoneage
1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, inOSFAN[2], volume10, Chapter 3½, page33:
Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygoneage, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings[sic].
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel: The world’s thirst for oil could be nearing a peak. That is bad news for producers, excellent for everyone else.”, inThe Economist[3], volume408, number8847, archived fromthe original on1 August 2013:
The dawn of the oilage was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
1911 April 10,The Evening News, Sydney, page 8, column 2:
Mr Lewis says we are living in theage of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.
(countable)Lifespan,lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
Theage of man is three score years and ten.
Thrice theage of a dog is that of a horse.
1872, George Duncan Gibb,The Physical Condition of Centenarians, as Derived from Personal Observation in Nine Genuine Examples, London,page13:
The CHAIRMAN said if Lord Bacon had asserted that man'sage exceeded that of all other living creatures, he must have included the patriarchs in his calculation. Without doubt theage of many animals exceeded that of man. [...] Indeed, if the assumedage of the patriarchs be correct, it is against our own experience, it being an admitted fact that the duration of human life has increased. Theage of the patriarchs was by some attributed to the effect of certain waters upon the cartilages.
The age of a person or an animal is often given just as a number, implied to be a number of years. For example "What is the age of your son?" — "Ten." (meaning ten years). With other subjects, units are specified even when years. For example "What is the age of this fossil?" — "Three million years." (not "Three million.")
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As weage, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
(intransitive, of a statement, prediction, etc.) To suffer the passage of time so as to later beviewed orturn out in a certain way.
His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn'taged well, now that we've won the cup.
The sitcom was made in the 1970s and its casual sexism has notaged well.
(transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
Griefages us.
1998 Fall, Mare Freed, “Aluhana”, inThe Antioch Review, volume56, number 4:
To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sureages her.
To allow to mature.
Weage the whiskey for five years.
To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
This clock is modern, but it has been deliberatelyaged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
(transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
There are several ways toage trees.
(transitive) Toindicate orreveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. Thatages me.
1992 June 14,This Week with David Brinkley (television production), spoken by[James?] Carville, via ABC:
Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probablyaging myself now, okay?
(transitive,figuratively) To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
Money's a little tight right now. Let'sage our bills for a week or so.
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Munster form ofag(used before a possessive determiner)
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, inMarie-Louise Sjoestedt,Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études;270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page193:
Ní raibh aoinne cloinneage n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.
