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Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

1. (countable) 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)
2. (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.
   • Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins

   Synonyms:

   old age, dotage, senility, seniority, chair days, codgerhood, eld, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom

   Antonyms:

   youth

3. (countable) Any particular stage of life.
   • the age of infancy
4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
   • the age of consent; the age of discretion
5. (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
   • to come of age; she is now of age

   Synonyms:

   majority, adulthood

6. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
   • the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age

   Synonyms:

   epoch, time, era, cycle, day, generation, Great Year, interval, period, Platonic year

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