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Defenition of the word age

    • Defenition of the word age

      • The period of time that a person, animal or plant has lived or is expected to live.
      • To begin to look older; to get older.
      • To make older.
      • A period of history having some distinctive feature.
      • How long something has existed.
      • how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"
      • a historic period; "we live in a litigious age"
      • a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"
      • begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
      • make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
      • get old or older; "We age every day--a depressing thought"
      • grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"
      • a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
      • time of life; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"
      • a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"
      • a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he''s showing his years"; "age hasn''t slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
      • a prolonged period of time; "we''ve known each other for ages"; "I haven''t been there for years and years"
      • an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
      • grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
      • how long something has existed
      • a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
      • a late time of life
      • a prolonged period of time
      • an era of history having some distinctive feature
      • grow old or older
      • begin to seem older; get older
      • make older

    Synonyms for the word age

      • become old
      • eld
      • epoch
      • era
      • geezerhood
      • generation
      • get older
      • get on
      • grow old
      • historic period
      • lifetime
      • long time
      • majority
      • maturate
      • mature
      • old age
      • oldness
      • period
      • senesce
      • senility
      • time
      • times
      • years

    Similar words in the age

      • age
      • age's
      • ageism
      • ageless
      • agencies
      • agency
      • agency's
      • agendas
      • ages

    Meronymys for the word age

      • eighties
      • history
      • life
      • lifespan
      • lifetime
      • mid-eighties
      • mid-nineties
      • mid-seventies
      • mid-sixties
      • nineties
      • seventies
      • sixties

    Hyponyms for the word age

      • aeon
      • age of consent
      • antiquity
      • blue moon
      • bone age
      • chronological age
      • Dark Ages
      • developmental age
      • dotage
      • dote
      • drinking age
      • Elizabethan age
      • eon
      • fertilization age
      • fetal age
      • fossilise
      • fossilize
      • gestational age
      • golden age
      • Harlem Renaissance
      • industrial revolution
      • jazz age
      • legal age
      • long
      • majority
      • mental age
      • Middle Ages
      • minority
      • month of Sundays
      • New Deal
      • newness
      • nonage
      • oldness
      • Reconstruction
      • Reconstruction Period
      • reign
      • Reign of Terror
      • Renaissance
      • Restoration
      • second childhood
      • senility
      • technological revolution
      • turn
      • turn of the century
      • Victorian age
      • voting age
      • year dot
      • youngness

    Hypernyms for the word age

      • alter
      • amount of time
      • change
      • degenerate
      • deteriorate
      • develop
      • drop
      • epoch
      • era
      • modify
      • period
      • period of time
      • property
      • time of life
      • time period

    Antonyms for the word age

      • rejuvenate

    Idioms for the word age

      • awkward age

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