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age

noun
/eɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Italic *aiwom Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Proto-Italic *aiwotāts Vulgar Latin aetās Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Vulgar Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Vulgar Latin -icus Vulgar Latin -āticus Vulgar Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *aetāticum Old French eagebor. Middle English age English age From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge. Displaced native Old English ieldu. The verb is from Middle English agen, from the noun. Originally found mostly as a participial adjective, probably an adjective in -ed, derived from the noun, reanalyzed to create a verb; perhaps modeled on such pairs as Latin senēscō (seneō; verb) / senex (adjective) and Middle French vieillir (verb) / vieil (adjective). Also compare Old French se aagier, eogier (“become of age”).

  1. inherited from agen
  2. derived from *h₂eyu-✻
  3. derived from aetas
  4. derived from *aetāticum✻
  5. derived from eage
  6. inherited from age

Definitions

  1. The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in…

    The amount of time that some being 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 in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)

    • "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
    • What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
    • We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.

  2. The state of being old

    The state of being old; the latter part of life.

    • Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

  3. Any particular stage of life.

    • the age of infancy
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become…

      The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

      • the age of consent; the age of discretion

    2. Maturity

      Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

      • to come of age; she is now of age

    3. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

      • the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
      • Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings ^([sic]).

    4. One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by…

      One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.

      • Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.

    5. A period of one hundred years

      A period of one hundred years; a century.

    6. A generation.

      • There are three ages living in her house.

    7. A long time.

      • It’s been an age since we last saw you.

    8. Lifespan, lifetime

      Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).

      • The age of man is three score years and ten.
      • Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.
      • Done at London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in the fifty-eighth year of my age.

    9. The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in…

      The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.

    10. To grow aged

      To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.

      • He grew fat as he aged.
      • I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there. Sober thinking brings them
      • However, if you have the misfortune of being a child actor born on the show, watch out. […] The point is these kids age quickly.

    11. To cause to grow old

      To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

      • Grief ages us.
      • To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sure ages her.

    12. To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in…

      To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).

      • There are several ways to age trees.

    13. To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time,…

      To indicate or reveal 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. That ages me.
      • Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probably aging myself now, okay?

    14. To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a…

      To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.

      • Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.

    15. To categorize by age.

      • One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

    16. Initialism of advanced glycation end-product.

    17. Initialism of agarose gel electrophoresis.

    18. Initialism of allyl glycidyl ether.

    19. Initialism of arterial gas embolism.

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Derived

achievement age, act one's age, advanced age, afterage, age adjustment, age-adjustment, age ain't nothing but a number, age before beauty, age class, age compression, aged, age difference, age discrimination, age distribution, age dream, age dreamer, age-during, age fright, ageful, age gap, age gate, age grade, agegraphic, age group, age identity, ageing, aging, age is just a number, ageism, ageist, ageistic, ageless, age limit, agelong, age-long, age-mate, Age of Aquarius, age of consent, age of criminal responsibility, age of discretion · +133 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at age. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01age02birth03beginning04source05acquired06acquire07illness08poor09contemporaries10contemporary

A definitional loop anchored at age. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at age

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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