Word.ws English Dictionary

weight for age

weight for age adverb: handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).

Adverb

weight for age (not comparable)

  1. Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
    • [H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243
    Synonyms:
    WFA

Noun

weight for age

  1. A weight for age race.
    • "What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140
    Synonyms:
    WFA

Synonyms of weight for age

Questions about weight for age

What does weight for age mean?
Weight for age means handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
What part of speech is weight for age?
Weight for age can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near weight for age in the dictionary

  1. weight bore
  2. weight borne
  3. weight class
  4. weight classes
  5. weight down
  6. weight for age
  7. weight gain
  8. weight gainer
  9. weight gainers
  10. weight gains
  11. weight lifter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weight for age (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “weight for age.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/weight_for_age. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.