old age
old age noun: the latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
Noun
old age (uncountable)
- The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
- People often become hard of hearing in old age.
- A ripe old age.
- Synonyms:
- golden years, codgerhood, eld, age, chair days, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom, oldhood, senescence
- A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.
Proper noun capitalized: Old Age
Old Age
- The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement.
- I have often wondered what's so "new" about the New Age; its basic tenets that we can completely create our own reality and that everything happens for a reason, to teach some sort of lesson, have always seemed to me to carry the same message as the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps"...1988 December 11, Kiki Zeldes, “New Age: Cult Out Of Control”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 4
old age meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
old age in Hindi
- latter part of life
- बुढ़ापा buṛhāpā, वृद्धावस्था vŕddhāvasthā
old age in Tamil
- latter part of life
- முதுமை mutumai
old age in Urdu
- latter part of life
- بڑھاپا buṛhāpā
old age in Telugu
- latter part of life
- వృద్ధాప్యము vr̥ddhāpyamu, ముసలితనము musalitanamu
More languagesFewer languages
- old age in Malayalam
- വാർദ്ധക്യം vāṟddhakyaṁ
- old age in Kannada
- ಮುದಿತನ, ನರೆತನ, ಕೆಳವೆ, ಮುಪ್ಪು
- old age in Gujarati
- વૃદ્ધત્વ vŕddhatva
- old age in Sanskrit
- जरा jarā́, जीर्ण jīrṇa
- old age in Arabic
- شَيْخُوخَة šayḵūḵa, عُجُوز ʕujūz, كِبْر سِنّ kibr sinn
- old age in Indonesian
- masa tua
- old age in Persian
- پیری piri, زرمان zarmân, کهنسالی kohansâli, سالخوردگی sâlxordegi
- old age in Thai
- วัยสูงอายุ wai sŏong aayú
- old age in Vietnamese
- tuổi già
Synonyms of old age
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Antonyms
Origin of old age
From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old + age. Displaced wholly non-native Middle English vilesse (“old age”) (borrowed from Old French villesce, vieillece (“old age”)) and senectute (“old age”) (from Latin senectūs (“old age”)).
Words formed from old age
Questions about old age
- What does old age mean?
- Old age means the latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
- What is old age in Hindi?
- Old age in Hindi is बुढ़ापा (buṛhāpā), वृद्धावस्था (vŕddhāvasthā). See Old age meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is old age?
- Old age can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near old age in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: old age (page history and authors); Old Age (page history and authors); old age (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વૃદ્ધત્વ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); जरा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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