aging Definition

age
noun

1. The period of time during which a person, animal, plant or phenomenon has lived or existed.

Thesaurus: era, date, time, years, period, epoch, generation.
2. A particular stage in life.

Example: old age
3. psychol.
One's developmental equivalent in years compared with the average for one's chronological age.
4. The fact or time of being old.

Thesaurus: elderliness, senescence, seniority, maturity, senility, dotage, decrepitude; Antonym: youth, salad days.
5. In the Earth's history: an interval of time during which specific life forms, physical conditions, geological events, etc were dominant.

Example: the Ice Age
6. colloq
A very long time.
Thesaurus: years, eons, centuries, decades, time.
Form: ages (usually)

verb aged, ageing, aging

intr
1. To show signs of growing old.

Thesaurus: mature, ripen, season, mellow, grow old, decline, deteriorate, obsolesce.
intr
2. To grow old.
intr
3. To mature.
4. To make someone seem older or look old.

Derivative: ageing
noun, adj

Idiom: act one's age (be one's age)

To behave sensibly.

Idiom: come of age

To become legally old enough to have an adult's rights and duties.

Idiom: of an age

Of the same, or a similar, age.

Idiom: over age

Too old.

Idiom: under age

Too young to be legally allowed to do something, eg buy alcoholic drink.

Etymology: 13c: from French aage, from Latin aetas.

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