Age

Noun

 * 1) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
 * 2) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time.
 * 3) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
 * 4) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
 * 5) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
 * 6) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
 * 7) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
 * 8) A great period in the history of the Earth.
 * 9) A century; the period of one hundred years.
 * 10) The people who live at a particular period.
 * 11) Hence, a generation.
 * 12) A long time.

Verb

 * 1)  To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
 * 2)  To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
 * 3)  To categorize by age.
 * 4)  To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Adjectives for Age
pastoral; comfortable; endless;  bygone; primitive; seasoned; abominable;  imponderable; distant; crabbed; prehistoric; gray-grown ; infidel; enlightened; feeble; unnumbered (plural); glorious; relative (plural); countless (plural); paleozoic;  prolific;  venerable; immemorial; aesthetical; barbarous; Pliocene;  dim-lit;  embittered; susceptible; infinite;  green;  polished;  deathless;  heroic; jostling; remote; pre-chromo; realistic; frostless; advancing; ripe; patriarchal; responsive; besotted; waning; historic; prudish;  hoary;  blissful;  geologic;  energetic; fabulous; middle; streamlined;  advanced; receptive; decrepit; retirement; earnest; unregarded; tender; dingy; glamorous; roistering; marriageable; approaching; homely; renowned; rosy; honored; critical; heartless;  prescribed;  masquerading;   electric; discreet;  weak;  dull;  contented;  mature; rotting;  ambitious;  exorbitant;  muddled; revolutionary; live; unresting; premature; credulous; pre-scientific;  weary;  degenerate;  fabled; classical;  sententious;  hectic; dateless; material; iron-bound;  licentious; ruthless;  flourishing;  indeterminate;  haggish; adolescent; sedate;  debutante; disillusioned; discretionary; vast; eligible; unhonored;  mellowed; inventive;  withered; golden; machine; raucous; tabloid; pagan; graceless; robust; sordid; decayed; ripened; unorthodox; practical; vanished; leisurely; stalwart; toddling; primeval; hoary; talking; shallow; successive (pi); sentimental; dangerous; undiscriminating; independent; buried; innumerable (pl).

Verbs for Age
advance in; attain; clothe - in glory; come of; decay with; defy; denote; dim with; enfeeble with; ensnare with; exempt from; honor old; incapacitate with;  increase  with;   judge; knock at the door of; limit; renew; reveal; scoff at old; serve; stoop with; succumb to old; accounts for; adorns; s average; cracks; decays; deposits; diminishes; dispels; enfeebles; honors; impairs; measures; mellows; prevails ; privileges; retards ;  shrivels;  steals  on;  strikes; wears; withers; wrinkles; yellows; attribute  to;  belong  to;  classify -s; corrupt; denounce; designate; divide into; epitomize; excel; fade into -s; gild;  glorify; mark; mechanize; outlive; pervade; proclaim; represent; symbolize; terminate; usher in; s behold; recognizes.

Thesaurus
abidingness; aboriginality; aeon; ages; ancien regime; ancientness; annus magnus; antiquate; antiquity; atavism; become extinct; become obsolete; blue moon; caducity; century; cheat the undertaker; cobwebs of antiquity; constancy; continuance; cycle; cycle of indiction; date; day; days; decline; defeat of time; defiance of time; develop; diuturnity; dodder; durability; durableness; duration; dust of ages; eld; elderliness; eldership; endurance; epoch; era; eternity; fade; fail; florid; fossilize; fust; generation; get along; get on; glacial epoch; great age; great year; grow; grow old; grow up; hoary age; hoary eld; indiction; inveteracy; lastingness; life; lifetime; long; long standing; long time; long while; long-lastingness; long-livedness; longevity; lose currency; maintenance; maturate; mellow; molder; month of Sundays; obsolesce; old age; old order; old style; oldness; outdate; perdurability; perennation; period of existence; perish; permanence; perpetuity; persistence; primitiveness; primogeniture; primordialism; primordiality; right smart spell; ripe; ripen; rust; senectitude; senescence; senility; seniority; shake; shrivel; sink; stability; standing; steadfastness; superannuate; survival; survivance; time; totter; turn gray; turn white; venerableness; wane; waste away; wither; wizen; wrinkle; years; years on end

Etymology
From age from  age from  aage: (Modern French âge:), from assumed unattested  *undefined: from  aetātem, accusative form of aetas: from aevum:. Displaced native Middle English elde "age" (from Old English eldo, ieldo "age").

Synonyms

 * dotage, old age, eld

Derived terms

 * act one's age
 * age before beauty
 * aged
 * ageism
 * age discrimination
 * age distribution
 * age group
 * ageist
 * ageless
 * age limit
 * agelong
 * age of consent
 * Age of Enlightenment


 * age of majority
 * age-old
 * age rating
 * age-reversal
 * ages
 * age spot
 * ageing, aging
 * all ages
 * atomic age/Atomic Age
 * bone age
 * Bronze Age
 * come of age/coming of age
 * coon's age
 * dark age/Dark Ages


 * day and age/in this day and age
 * drinking age
 * emotional age
 * full age
 * golden age
 * heroic age
 * ice age
 * Industrial Age
 * Iron Age
 * jazz age
 * legal age
 * mental age


 * Middle Ages
 * New Age
 * new-age
 * nuclear age
 * of age
 * old-age
 * prehistoric age
 * school age
 * silver age
 * space age/space-age
 * Stone Age
 * teenage, teenager
 * under age/underage
 * voting age
 * youth-on-age

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一輩子, 一辈子
 * Danish: levetid
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gujarati: ઉમર (umar)
 * Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
 * Hindi: आयु (aayu), उमर, उम्र
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ;


 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 일생 (ilsaeng); 수명 (sumyeong)
 * Latin: natus, aetas
 * Polish: czas życia, długość życia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, продолжительность жизни
 * Scottish Gaelic: aois
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: anyos, edad
 * Thai: อายุ (aayú)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: (umr)


 * Arabic: عمر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Asturian: edá
 * Basque: aro
 * Bulgarian: възраст
 * Catalan: edat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 年歲, 年岁
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ηλικία (ilikía)
 * Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
 * Hindi: उमर, उम्र
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: etate


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ;
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 연령 (年齡)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌مه‌ن
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: idade, rarely edade
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: vegliadetgna
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: aois
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: edad
 * Telugu: వయసు (vayasu)
 * Thai: อายุ (aayú)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: عمر


 * Armenian: ծերություն
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: alderdom
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: זקנה (ziqna)
 * Japanese: ; 高齢


 * Korean: 노령 (noreyong); 고령 (goryeong)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: старость, возраст , года (literally translates years)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: عمر
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: възраст
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 年歲, 年岁
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: גיל (gyl)
 * Hindi: उमर, उम्र
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean: 연령 (年齡)
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: عمر


 * Armenian: չափահասություն
 * Bulgarian: пълнолетие
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese:, (to come of age)
 * Korean: 성년 (seongnyeon)
 * Latin: natus
 * Polish: ,


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: совершеннолетие (sov'eršennol'étije)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: dospelý vek
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: -ikä latter part of a compound
 * Latin: natus
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Slovak: zrelý vek
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: դարաշրջան,
 * Asturian: edá
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 时代
 * Czech:
 * Danish: epoke
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תקופה (tqufa), עידן (ydan)
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: epocha
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 시대, 時代 (sidae)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:, سه‌رده‌م


 * Latin:
 * Low Saxon: tied
 * Maltese:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: эпоха, эра , время (often used in its plural form времена), век  (especially to indicate particular century)
 * Scottish Gaelic: linn, ùine ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: యుగం
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: tidsalder
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: עידן (ydan)
 * Interlingua: epocha, era;
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: tempus, aera
 * Maltese: ,
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: эпоха, эра , время (often used in its plural form времена), век  (especially to indicate particular century)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:


 * Swahili:


 * See generation


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: דור (dor)
 * Interlingua: generation
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 세대, 世代 (sedae)
 * Maltese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తరం (taram)
 * Turkish:


 * Hebrew: נצח (netzakh)
 * Latin: natus
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: състарявам
 * Dutch: ,
 * German: altern lassen
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:


 * Russian: старить, состарить
 * Spanish: envejecer
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: få någon att åldras


 * Bulgarian: остарявам
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: maljuniĝi
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Japanese: 年を取る, としをとる (toshi wo toru)
 * Korean: 나이를먹다 (nai reul meokda)
 * Polish:


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: стареть, постареть ; стариться , состариться
 * Slovak: starnúť, zostarnúť
 * Spanish: envejecerse
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * : verða gamall, eldast, kemba hærurnar

Anagrams

 * EGA
 * G. E. A.

Noun

 * 1) beam
 * 2) shaft

Noun

 * 1)   something fried
 * 2)  rise in something, especially price
 * 3)  a tuck in a kimono

Suffix

 * 1)   fried, -fry
 * 2)  raising something, loading something, or a rise in something

Etymology
From ("to make sour, to rot"). Compare Assan bar-ak ("rotten") and Arin bar-oje ("rotten").

Adjective

 * 1) rotten

Related terms

 * b-āge-jaŋ
 * d́āgejaŋ

Noun

 * 1)  face

Noun

 * 1) eye