Definitions for AGE
eɪdʒage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 4 votes

1. agenoun

   how long something has existed

   "it was replaced because of its age"

2. historic period, agenoun

   an era of history having some distinctive feature

   "we live in a litigious age"

3. age, eldnoun

   a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

   "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"

4. long time, age, yearsnoun

   a prolonged period of time

   "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"

5. old age, years, age, eld, geezerhoodverb

   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"

6. ageverb

   begin to seem older; get older

   "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"

7. senesce, age, get on, mature, maturateverb

   grow old or older

   "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"

8. ageverb

   make older

   "The death of his child aged him tremendously"

GCIDERate this definition:3.4 / 5 votes

1. Agenoun

   Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott. In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old. Some rights, such as that of voting in elections, are conferred earlier.

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. agenoun

   The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

2. agenoun

   That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time.

   What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

3. agenoun

   The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.

4. agenoun

   One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

5. agenoun

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

6. agenoun

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

7. agenoun

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

8. agenoun

   A great period in the history of the Earth.

9. agenoun

   A century; the period of one hundred years.

10. ageverb

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

    Grief ages us.

11. ageverb

    To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

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

12. ageverb

    To categorize by age.

    One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

13. ageverb

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

    He grew fat as he aged.

14. agenoun

    The people who live at a particular period.

15. agenoun

    Hence, a generation.

    There are three ages living in her house.

16. agenoun

    A long time.

    It's been an age since we last saw you.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. AGEnoun

   Etymology: age, Fr. anciently eage, or aage; it is deduced by Gilles Ménage, from ætatium, of ætas; by Franciscus Junius, from aa, which, in the Teutonic dialects, signified long duration.

   1. Any period of time attributed to something as the whole, or part, of its duration: in this sense, we say, the age of man, the several ages of the world, the golden or iron age.

   One man in his time plays many parts,
   His life being seven ages. William Shakespeare.

   And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. Genesis, xlvii. 28.

   2. A succession or generation of men.

   Hence, lastly, springs care of posterities,
   For things their kind would everlasting make.
   Hence is it, that old men do plant young trees,
   The fruit whereof another age shall take. John Davies.

   Next, to the Son,
   Destin’d Restorer of mankind, by whom
   New heav’n, and earth, shall to the ages rise,
   Or down from heav’n descend. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   No declining age
   E’er felt the raptures of poetic rage. Wentworth Dillon.

   3. The time in which any particular man, or race of men, lived, or shall live; as, the age of heroes.4. The space of a hundred years; a secular period; a century.5. The latter part of life; old-age; oldness.

   You see how full of change his age is: the observation we have made of it hath not been little; he always loved our sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Boys must not have th’ ambitious care of men,
   Nor men the weak anxieties of age. Wentworth Dillon.

   And on this forehead, where your verse has said,
   The loves delighted, and the graces play’d;
   Insulting age will trace his cruel way,
   And leave sad marks of his destructive sway. Matthew Prior.

   6. Maturity; ripeness; full strength of life.

   A solemn admission of proselytes, all that either, being of age, desire that admission for themselves, or that, in infancy, are by others presented to that charity of the church. Henry Hammond.

   We thought our sires, not with their own content,
   Had, ere we came to age, our portion spent. Dryd.

   7. In law.In a man, the age of fourteen years is the age of discretion; and twenty-one years is the full age: In a woman, at seven years of age, the lord her father may distrain his tenants for aid to marry her; at the age of nine years, she is dowable; at twelve years, she is able finally to ratify and confirm her former consent given to matrimony; at fourteen, she is enabled to receive her land into her own hands, and shall be out of ward at the death of her ancestor; at sixteen, she shall be out of ward, though, at the death of her ancestor, she was within the age of fourteen years; at twenty-one, she is able to alienate her lands and tenements. At the age of fourteen, a stripling is enabled to choose his own guardian; at the age of fourteen, a man may consent to marriage. John Cowell

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Age

   Age is a song written and recorded by Jim Croce and his wife Ingrid. The song was first recorded in 1969 on their self-titled album. Jim Croce would record the song again, this time without Ingrid, for his final album I Got a Name in 1973. Jerry Reed's cover of the song was released as a single in 1980 on his tribute album to Croce, and it peaked at 36 on the Billboard country chart.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. age

   Age refers to the length of time that a person, animal, or thing has existed or has been in existence. It often signifies the period from birth to the present day in humans. Age can also refer to a particular period in history or a specific stage in a life cycle.

2. age

   Age is a measure of the length of time an individual, object, or entity has existed, typically calculated from the time of birth or creation to the present. It is often expressed in units such as years, months, or days. In the context of living organisms, age can also be used to denote the physical and physiological changes and maturity levels achieved over time.

3. age

   Age is a measure of the length of time an individual, organism, object, or concept has existed since its creation or birth. It is often expressed in units like years, months or days. For people and animals, it usually refers to the period elapsed since birth; for objects, it is often the time since its making or formation.

4. age

   Age refers to the length of time that a person, animal, or object has existed. It indicates the amount of time that has passed since someone or something was born or created. Age often affects maturity, growth or deterioration, and it is usually measured in units such as years, months, or days.

5. age

   Age refers to the length of time an individual, organism, or object has existed, usually measured in years or units of time. In humans, it typically refers to the period from birth to the present. Age can also refer to a specific period or era in history or the characteristics associated with a certain period of life.

6. age

   Age refers to the length of time that a person, animal, or object has been alive or existed. It can also refer to a particular period in someone's life or in history. Age is often used to denote maturity, development, or stages of life.

7. age

   Age refers to the length of time an individual, organism, object or entity has been in existence. In humans, it is often measured in years from the date of birth. Age can also refer to a particular period in history or an individual's life characterized by notable events or features.

8. age

   Age refers to the length of time a living entity, such as a human, animal or plant, has existed since their birth or creation. It is often expressed in units such as years, months, weeks or days. Age can also denote a particular period of history or significant phase in the development of something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Agenoun

   the whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime

2. Agenoun

   that part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

3. Agenoun

   the latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old

4. Agenoun

   one of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc

5. Agenoun

   mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age

6. Agenoun

   the time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion

7. Agenoun

   a particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles

8. Agenoun

   a great period in the history of the Earth

9. Agenoun

   a century; the period of one hundred years

10. Agenoun

    the people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation

11. Agenoun

    a long time

12. Ageverb

    to grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged

13. Ageverb

    to cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us

14. Etymology: [OF. aage, eage, F. ge, fr. L. aetas through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr. aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf. Each.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Age

   In model theory, the age of a structure A is the class of all finitely generated structures which are embeddable in A. This concept is central in the construction of a Fraïssé limit. The main point of Fraïssé's construction is to show how one can approximate a structure by its finitely generated substructures. Thus for example the age of any dense linear order without endpoints, is precisely the set of all finite linear orderings, which are distinguished up to isomorphism only by their size. Thus the age of any DLO is countable. This shows in a way that a DLO is a kind of limit of finite linear orderings. One can easily see that any class K which is an age of some structure satisfies the following three conditions: Fraïssé proved that when K is any non-empty countable set of finitely generated σ-structures which has the above two properties, then it is an age of a countable structure. Furthermore, suppose that K happens to satisfy the following additional property. In that case, there is a unique countable structure, up to isomorphism, that has age K and is homogeneous. In this context, Homogeneous means that any isomorphism between two finitely generated substructures can be extended to an automorphism of the whole structure. Again, an example of this situation is the ordered set of rational numbers . It is the unique homogenous countable structure whose age is the set of all finite linear orderings. Note that the ordered set of natural numbers has the same age as a DLO, but it is not homogenous since if we map {1, 3} to {5, 6}, it would not extend to any automorphism f since there should be an element between and . The same applies to integers.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.6 / 5 votes

1. Age

   āj, n. the ordinary length of human life: the time during which a person or thing has lived or existed: mature years: legal maturity (at 21 years), or time of life with regard to crime, contracts, marriage, &c.: a period of time: any great period of human history, as the Golden Age, the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, or of individual history, as the age of infancy, the five—or seven—so-called ages of man: a generation of men: a century.—v.i. to grow old:—pr.p. āg′ing; pa.p. āg′ed.—adj. Aged (āj′ed), advanced in age: having a certain age.—n.pl. old people.—n. Agedness (āj′ed-nes), condition of being aged or old.—adjs. Age′less; Age′long. [O. Fr. edage (Fr. âge)—L. ætas = ævitas—L. ævum, age; cog. with Ever.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. AGE

   Something to brag about in your wine-cellar and forget in a birth-day book The boast of an old vintage, the bug a boo of an old maid.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. age

   In chronology, a period of a hundred years.--Ship's age, one of the stipulations of contracts at Lloyd's.--Age of the moon, is the interval of time or number of days elapsed since the previous conjunction or new moon.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. age

   In a military sense, a young man must be 14 years old before he can become an officer in the English army, or be entered as a cadet at Woolwich, in the English military academy. For admission to the military academy at West Point, U. S., the age is from 17 to 22 years. Men are enlisted for soldiers at from 17 to 45 in the English army, and in the U. S. army at from 18 to 35. Officers in the U. S. army may be retired, at the discretion of the President, at 62 years of age.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. age

   An amount of time alive from birth to the current moment for a human being or animal.

   Age is but a number on a page, it's how we feel, think and see that matters.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020  

2. ---

   ageverb

   The first recording from the birth of a human child until the death which was caused by the sin of Man and woman on Gaia, and brings justification for the general attorney in time. 1.) The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.

   I am in my medieval age of years, and it's my time to reign with Jesus Christ. Age is justice of a number.

   Etymology: Growth

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on March 14, 2024  

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1. AGE

   What does AGE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the AGE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. AGE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Age is ranked #45886 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Age surname appeared 465 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Age.
   
   46.6% or 217 total occurrences were White.
   46% or 214 total occurrences were Black.
   4.3% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Develop
   • Era
   • Property
   • Time Period

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AGE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #418

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AGE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #674

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AGE' in Nouns Frequency: #118

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AGE' in Verbs Frequency: #708

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Anagrams for AGE »

1. EGA

2. G. E. A.

How to pronounce AGE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say AGE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of AGE in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of AGE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of AGE in a Sentence

1. Steve Gebbie:

   I'd have to start over at age 56, that's concerning. I was five years away from retirement, with a house paid for. And retirement is nowhere near in the future now.

2. Andrew Solomon:

   A lot of teams rely way too heavily on two or three kids to pitch and those kids are getting overpitched from a pretty young age.

3. Stephen Evans:

   There is no reason at all for anyone in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to think that this Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is ineffective at any age.

4. The ATSB Foley:

   There are hundreds of ships lost in our world's oceans over time, through old age, cyclones, typhoons and one would expect this to occur.

5. Marion Underwood:

   Receiving these pictures is upsetting, especially at such a young age, because it's something you didn't ask to see, it's something you may have wished you did not open, but you can't erase it out of your mind, it's illegal, it's worrisome, it's scary, it's dangerous, it's loaded. If you tell an adult, everybody will get in a lot of trouble. So I think it puts them in a really tough position.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=AGE
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=AGE
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Age
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=AGE
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/AGE
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=AGE
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=AGE
10. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=AGE
11. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=AGE
12. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
13. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
14. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=AGE