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age  (j)

n.

1. The length of time that one has existed; duration of life: 23 years of age.

2. The time of life when a person becomes qualified to assume certain civil and personal rights and responsibilities, usually at 18 or 21 years; legal age: under age; of age.

3. One of the stages of life: the age of adolescence; at an awkward age.

4. The state of being old; old age: hair white with age.

5. often Age

a. A period in the history of humankind marked by a distinctive characteristic or achievement: the Stone Age; the computer age.

b. A period in the history of the earth, usually shorter than an epoch: the Ice Age.

c. A period of time marked by the presence or influence of a dominant figure: the Elizabethan Age. See Synonyms at period.

6.

a. The period of history during which a person lives: a product of his age.

b. A generation: ages yet unborn.

7. ages Informal An extended period of time: left ages ago.

v. aged, ag·ing, ag·es

v.tr.

1. To cause to become old.

2. To cause to mature or ripen under controlled conditions: aging wine.

3. To change (the characteristics of a device) through use, especially to stabilize (an electronic device).

v.intr.

1. To become old.

2. To manifest traits associated with old age.

3. To develop a certain quality of ripeness; become mature: cheese aging at room temperature. See Synonyms at mature.

Phrasal Verb:

age out Informal

To reach an age, 18 or 21 years, for example, at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from the state.

Idiom:

come of age

To reach maturity.

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[Middle English, from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetticum, from Latin aets, aett-, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.]

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ager n.

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age [eɪdʒ]

n

1. the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live the age of a tree what age was he when he died? the age of a horse is up to thirty years

2. the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc. the age of this table is 200 years

3.

a.  a period or state of human life he should know better at his age she had got beyond the giggly age

b.  (as modifier) age group

4. the latter part of life

5. (Historical Terms)

a.  a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era

b.  (capital when part of a name) the Middle Ages the Space Age

6. generation the Edwardian age

7. (Earth Sciences / Geological Science) Geology palaeontol

a.  a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics the age of reptiles

b.  the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch

8. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages

9. (often plural) Informal a relatively long time she was an age washing her hair I've been waiting ages

10. (Psychology) Psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age See also achievement age, mental age

age before beauty (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people

(Law)

of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)

vb ages, ageing, aging aged

1. to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged

2. to begin to seem older to have aged a lot in the past year

3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) Brewing to mature or cause to mature

[via Old French from Vulgar Latin aetatīcum (unattested), from Latin aetās, ultimately from aevum lifetime; compare aeon]

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Age

See also children; old age.

ageism, agism

discrimination on the basis of age, especially against older people.

antiquation

the process of making antiquated or the condition of being antiquated.

coetaneity

coevalneity. — coetaneous, adj.

coevalneity

the state or quality of being alike in age or duration; contemporaneity. Also called coetaneity. — coeval, aadj.

juniority

the condition of being junior, as in age, rank, or position.

quadragenarianism

the state of being in one’s forties. — quadragenarian, n., adj. — quadragenary, adj.

quinquagenarianism

the state of being in one’s fifties. — quinquagenarian, n., adj. — quinquagenary, adj.

sexagenarianism

the state of being in one’s sixties. — sexagenarian, n., adj. — sexagenary, adj.

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Age 

See Also: LIFE, MANKIND, YOUTH

1. Age covered her like a shawl to keep her warm —Rose Tremain
2. Age … indeterminate as a nun —Sharon Sheehe Stark
3. Age is a sickness, and youth is an ambush —John Donne
4. Age is like love, it cannot be hid —Thomas Dekker
5. Age, like a cage, will enclose him —Alastair Reid
6. Age, like distance, lends a double charm —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
7. Age like winter weather … age like winter bare —William Shakespeare

   These comparisons of age to the weather, from the poem The Passionate Pilgrim, are alternated with youth and the weather similes.

   See Also: YOUTH, WEATHER

8. Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Ageless as the sun —Algernon Charles Swinburne
10. The age of man resembles a book: infancy and old age are the blank leaves; youth, the preface; and man, the body or most important portion of life’s volume —Edward Parsons Day
11. (Each year in me) ages as quickly as lilac in May —F. D. Reeve

    The simile marks the opening of a poem entitled Curriculum Vitae.

12. Antique as the statues of the Greeks —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
13. As a white candle in a holy place, so is the beauty of an aged face —Joseph Campbell

    See Also: BEAUTY

14. At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage —John Andrew Holmes
15. At thirty-nine, the days grow shorter, and night kneels like a rapist on the edge of your bed —Richard Selzer
16. At twenty man is like a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty nothing at all —Valtasar Gracian
17. Awareness [of one’s own age] comes … like a slap in the eye —Ingrid Bergman, on seeing a friend no longer young

    See Also: REALIZATION

18. Being seventy-five means you sometimes get up in the morning and feel like a bent hairpin —Hume Cronyn, “Sixty Minutes” interview with Mike Wallace, April 12, 1987

    See Also: PAIN, PHYSICAL FEELINGS

19. He could account for his age as a man might account for an extraordinary amount of money he finds has slipped through his fingers —John Yount

    In his novel, Hardcastle, Yount expands on the simile as follows: “Sure, he could think back and satisfy himself that nothing was lost, but merely spent. Yet the odd notion persists that, if he knew just how to do it, he might shake himself awake and discover that he is young after all.”

20. Grow old before my eyes … as if time beat down on her like rain in a thunderstorm, every second a year —Erich Maria Remarque
21. He had reached the time of life when Alps and cathedrals become as transient as flowers —Edith Wharton
22. He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer’s booth —Arthur Schopenhauer
23. How earthy old people become … moldy as the gravel —Henry David Thoreau
24. Old as Methuselah —Seventeenth century proverb

    This has inspired many variations including another cliche, “As old as the hills,” generally attributed to Sir Walter Scott’s The Monastery and Dickens’ David Copperfield.

25. I feel age like an icicle down my back —Dyson Carter
26. A man of fifty looks old as Santa Claus to a girl of 20 —William Feather
27. A man’s as old as his arteries —Pierre J. G. Cabanis
28. Most old men are like old trees, past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them —Alexander Pope
29. My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kind —William Shakespeare
30. Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death —Franois, Due de La Rochefoucauld
31. Old age is false as Egypt is, and, like the wilderness, surprises —Babette Deutsch
32. Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
33. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re on board there’s nothing you can do —Golda Meir, quoted on being over 70 by Oriana Fallaci, L’Europe, 1973
34. Old age is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield —Muriel Spark
35. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young —Fred Astaire
36. Old age is rather like fatigue, except that you cannot correct it by relaxing or taking a vacation —B. F. Skinner and M. E. Vaughan
37. Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go —B. F. Skinner and M. E. Vaughan
38. Old age took her [Queen Elizabeth] by surprise, like a frost —Anon
39. Old as a garment the moths shall eat up —The Holy Bible/Isaiah
40. Old as a hieroglyph —John Berryman
41. Old as civilization —Morley Safer, “60 Minutes” segment on torture, November 9, 1986
42. Old as death —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
43. Old as God —Delmore Schwartz
44. Old as the sun —Slogan, Sun Insurance Co.
45. Old as history —Slogan, Anheuser-Busch beer
46. (I’m as) old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth —Jonathan Swift
47. (Made her feel) older than coal —Joseph Wambaugh
48. The old man is like a candle before the wind —Hilda Doolittle
49. An old man, like a spider, can never make love without beating his own death watch —Charles Caleb Colton
50. The old man who is loved is winter with flowers —German proverb
51. (The Jewish women were as … ) old as nature, as round as the earth —Thomas Wolfe
52. (The problem now is as) old as realism —Max Apple
53. Old as stone —Marge Piercy
54. Old as the most ancient of cities and older —Saul Bellow
55. Old women and old men … huddle like misers over their bag of life —Randall Jarrell
56. Some men mellow with age, like wine; but others get still more stringent, like vinegar —Henry C. Rowland
57. The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows —the first quarter century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back —F. Scott Fitzgerald
58. To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps —William Wadsworth Longfellow
59. Years steal fire from the mind as vigour from the limb —Lord Byron
60. You know you’re getting older when every day seems like Monday —Kitty Carlisle quoting her mother, 1985 television interview
61. Youth is like a dream; middle age, a forlorn hope; and old age a nostalgia with a pervasive flavor of newly turned earth —Gerald Kersh

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Age 

(See also OBSOLESCENCE, YOUTH.)

before one had nails on one’s toes See TIME.

brand-new Entirely or completely new; unused; absolutely or perfectly new; also bran-new. This term, in use since 1570, is said to have come from the Anglo-Saxon word brand ‘torch’ and formerly denoted metals or metal articles fresh from the fire or furnace. A synonym is fire-new used by Shakespeare in Richard III:

Your fire-new stamp of Honor is scarce current. (I, iii)

knee-high to a grasshopper See PHYSICAL STATURE.

long in the tooth Old; showing signs of old age. Although currently used of people, this expression originally applied exclusively to horses. It refers to the seemingly longer length of an older horse’s teeth, due to gum recession.

To be honest I am getting quite long in the tooth and this is a method of bringing children into my Christmas. (Sunday Express, December 24, 1972)

over the hill Past the time of greatest efficiency or power, past the prime of life, too old, aging; also, past the crisis, over the hurdles. The expression’s latter meanings may be derived from a traveler’s achievement of crossing a hill, after which the going is easier. The phrase’s more common meanings, however, allude to a hill as being the high point, or apex, of one’s effectiveness and authority, after which the only course is downhill. In contemporary usage, the phrase most often describes a person of advancing age.

As they say about boxers who are getting on in years, she is over the hill. (I. Cross, God Boy, 1957

salad days Youth; the time of juvenile inexperience and naivete; the springtime of one’s life. This expression may have derived as an analogy between green ‘inexperienced, Immature’ and the predominant color of salad ingredients. This comparison was made in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (I,v):

My salad days,
when I was green in judgment.

Today, in addition to the phrase’s youthful sense, salad days also refers to any period in a person’s life or career characterized by callowness and unsophistication.

In directing “The Pride and the Passion” Stanley Kramer created a picture as vast, heavily populated, and downright foolish as anything the Master [Cecil B. DeMille] confected in his salad days. (New Yorker, July, 1957)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	age - how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" chronological age - age measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existed; "his chronological age was 71 years" bone age - a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age developmental age - a measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age norms fertilization age, fetal age, gestational age - the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization mental age - the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test oldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newness newness - the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness oldness - the opposite of youngness youngness - the opposite of oldness
	2.	age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" historic period history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" epoch, era - a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe golden age - any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness Jazz Age - the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism reign - the period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII" turn of the century - the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century
	3.	age - 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" eld life-time, lifespan, lifetime, life - the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state age of consent - the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union legal age, majority - the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs nonage, minority - any age prior to the legal age drinking age - the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages voting age - the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections
	4.	age - a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" long time, years period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" month of Sundays - a time perceived as long; "I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays" eon, aeon - an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" blue moon - a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens" year dot - as long ago as anyone can remember; "he has been a conductor since the year dot"
	5.	age - 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" eld, geezerhood, old age, years time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state mid-sixties, sixties - the time of life between 60 and 70 mid-seventies, seventies - the time of life between 70 and 80 mid-eighties, eighties - the time of life between 80 and 90 mid-nineties, nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100 dotage, second childhood, senility - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
Verb	1.	age - begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" develop - grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
	2.	age - grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" senesce, maturate, mature, get on turn - become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year" fossilise, fossilize - become mentally inflexible develop - grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time" dote - be foolish or senile due to old age
	3.	age - make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" rejuvenate - make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him"

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age

noun

1. years, days, generation, lifetime, stage of life, length of life, length of existence He's very confident for his age.

2. old age, experience, maturity, completion, seniority, fullness, majority, maturation, senility, decline (of life), advancing years, dotage, declining years, senescence, full growth, agedness, autumn or evening of your life, matureness Perhaps he has grown wiser with age.
old age youth, childhood, adolescence, immaturity, young days, salad days, boyhood or girlhood, juvenescence

3. time, day(s), period, generation, era, epoch the age of steam and steel

4. a long time, years, forever, a lifetime, an eternity, aeons, yonks (informal) He waited what seemed an age.
a long time a second, a moment, an instant, a short time, a flash, a little while, a split second, no time at all, a jiffy (informal), two shakes of a lamb's tail (informal), the twinkling or wink of an eye

plural noun

(Informal) a long time or while, years, centuries, for ever (informal), aeons, donkey's years (informal), yonks (informal), a month of Sundays (informal), an age or eternity The bus took ages to arrive.

verb

1. grow old, decline, weather, fade, deteriorate, wither He seemed to have aged in the last few months.

2. mature, season, condition, soften, mellow, ripen Whisky loses strength as it ages.

come of age reach adulthood, mature, develop, grow up, bloom, blossom, become adult The money was held in trust until he came of age.

Quotations
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists]
"With age, the mind grows slower and more wily" [Mason Cooley City Aphorisms]
"Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read" [Francis Bacon Apophthegms, no. 97]

Translations

age [eɪdʒ]

A. N

1. [of person, animal, building] → edad f
what age is she? → ¿qué edad tiene? → ¿cuántos años tiene?
when I was your age → cuando tenía tu edad
I have a daughter your age or the same age as you → tengo una hija de tu edad or de tu misma edad
he's twice your age → te dobla en edad
he's half your age → lo doblas en edad
act your age! → ¡compórtate de acuerdo con tu edad!, ¡no seas niño!
people of all ages → gente de todas las edades
at my age → a mi edad
at the age of 11 → a los 11 años, a la edad de 11 años
from an early age → desde muy pequeño
to feel one's age → sentirse viejo
she looks/doesn't look her age → aparenta/no aparenta la edad que tiene
60 is no age at all → 60 años no son nada
he is five years of age → tiene cinco años(de edad)
they are both of an age → los dos tienen la misma edad
to be of an age to do sth → tener edad suficiente para hacer algo

2. (= adulthood)
to be of age → ser mayor de edad
to come of age (lit, fig) → llegar a or alcanzar la mayoría de edad
to be under age → ser menor de edad

3. (= old age)
age is beginning to tell on him → los años empiezan a pesar sobre él
wine improves with age → el vino mejora con el paso del tiempo

4. (= era) → era f
this is the age of the car → ésta es la era del automóvil
the age we live in → los tiempos que vivimos, los tiempos que corren
in the age of steam → en la era de las locomotoras de vapor
see also enlightenment, nuclear, reason A3

5. (= long time) we waited an age or for ages → esperamos una eternidad
it's ages or an age since I saw him → hace siglos or un siglo que no lo veo
you took ages → has tardado una eternidad or un siglo

B. VT [+ person] → envejecer; [+ wine] → envejecer, criar, añejar
the experience had aged her terribly → esa experiencia la había envejecido tremendamente

C. VI [person] → envejecer; [wine] → madurar, añejarse
he has aged a lot → ha envejecido mucho
she seems to have aged ten years in the last month → parece haber envejecido diez años en el último mes
to age well [wine] → mejorar con los años
she has aged well → se conserva bien para la edad que tiene, le sientan bien los años

D. CPD age bracket N → grupo m de edad, grupo m etario(more frm)
age difference N → diferencia f de edad
age discrimination N → discriminación f por razón de edad
age group N → grupo m de edad, grupo m etario(more frm)
the 40 to 50 age group → el grupo que comprende los de 40 a 50 años, el grupo de edad de 40 a 50
children of the same age group → niños de la misma edad
age limit N → límite m de edad, edad f mínima/máxima
there is no upper age limit → no hay un límite máximo de edad
age range N → escala f de edad
children in the age range from 12 to 14 → niños que van de los 12 a los 14 años

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age [ˈeɪdʒ]

n

(length of existence) → âge m
what age is he? → quel âge a-t-il?
he is 20 years of age → il a 20 ans
at the age of 16 → à l'âge de seize ans
you don't look your age → tu ne fais pas ton âge
to be under age [person] → être mineur(e)
see also under age
to come of age → atteindre la majorité
act your age! → ne fais pas l'enfant!
with age → avec l'âge
Wine improves with age → Le vin s'améliore avec l'âge.

(latter part of life) → grand âge m, vieillesse f
signs of age → signes mpl de vieillesse
He is showing signs of age → Il montre des signes de vieillesse.

(= era) → ère f, âge m
the Stone Age → l'âge de pierre
the Iron Age → l'âge du fer
the information age → l'ère de l'information
the nuclear age → l'ère nucléaire
the age of television → l'ère de la télévision
through the ages → à travers les âges
an age of uncertainty → une époque d'incertitude
We live in an age of uncertainty → Nous vivons une époque d'incertitude.

(= long time) an age, ages → une éternité
it's been ages since ... → ça fait une éternité que ... ne ...
for ages
I haven't been to the cinema for ages → Ça fait une éternité que je ne suis pas allé au cinéma.

vt → vieillir

vi → vieillir

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n

(of person, star, building etc) → Alter nt; what is her age?, what age is she? → wie alt ist sie?; he is ten years of age → er ist zehn Jahre alt; trees of great age → Bäume von hohem Alter; age doesn’t matter → das Alter spielt keine Rolle; at the age of 15 → im Alter von 15 Jahren, mit 15 Jahren; at your age → in deinem Alter; when I was your age → als ich in deinem Alter war, als ich so alt war wie du; when you’re my age → wenn du erst in mein Alter kommst, wenn du erst mal so alt bist wie ich; I have a daughter your age → ich habe eine Tochter in Ihrem Alter; but he’s twice your age → aber er ist ja doppelt so alt wie du; we’re of an age → wir sind gleichaltrig; he is now of an age to understand these things → er ist jetzt alt genug, um das zu verstehen; over age → zu alt; she doesn’t look her age → man sieht ihr ihr Alter nicht an, sie sieht jünger aus, als sie ist; be or act your age! → sei nicht kindisch!

(= length of life) → Lebensdauer f; (of human) → Lebenserwartung f; the age of a star can be millions of years → ein Stern kann viele Millionen Jahre existieren

(Jur) to be of age → volljährig or mündig sein; to come of age → volljährig or mündig werden, die Volljährigkeit erlangen; (fig) → den Kinderschuhen entwachsen; under age → minderjährig, unmündig; age of consent (for marriage) → Ehemündigkeitsalter nt; intercourse with girls under the age of consent → Unzucht f → mit Minderjährigen

(= old age) → Alter nt; bowed with age → vom Alter gebeugt; age before beauty (hum) → Alter vor Schönheit

(= period, epoch) → Zeit (→ alter nt) f; the atomic age → das Atomzeitalter; the age of technology → das technologische Zeitalter; in this age of inflation → in dieser inflationären Zeit; the Stone age → die Steinzeit; the Edwardian age → die Zeit or Ära Edwards VII; the age of Socrates → das Zeitalter Sokrates; down the ages → durch alle Zeiten; what will future ages think of us? → was werden kommende Generationen von uns halten?

(inf: = long time) ages, an age → eine Ewigkeit, Ewigkeiten pl, → ewig (lang) (all inf); I haven’t seen him for ages or for an age → ich habe ihn eine Ewigkeit or Ewigkeiten or ewig (lang) nicht gesehen (inf); it’s been ages since we met → wir haben uns ja eine Ewigkeit etc nicht mehr gesehen (inf); to take ages → eine Ewigkeit dauern (inf); (person) → ewig brauchen (inf)

vi → alt werden, altern; (wine, cheese) → reifen; you have aged → du bist alt geworden; she seems to have aged ten years → sie scheint um zehn Jahre gealtert zu sein

vt

(dress, hairstyle etc) → alt machen; (worry etc) → alt werden lassen, altern lassen

wine, cheese → lagern, reifen lassen

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age-defying

adj cosmetics → Anti-Aging- attr; behaviour → seinem/ihrem tatsächlichen Alter nicht entsprechend

age difference, age gap

n → Altersunterschied m

age group

n → Altersgruppe f; the forty to fifty age → die (Alters)gruppe der Vierzig- bis Fünfzigjährigen

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ageless

adj → zeitlos; she seems to be one of those age people → sie scheint zu den Menschen zu gehören, die nie alt werden

age limit

n → Altersgrenze f

age-long

adj → sehr lange, ewig (inf)

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age-old

adj → uralt

age range

n → Altersgruppe f

age-related

adj → altersspezifisch

age spot

n → Altersfleck m

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age [eɪdʒ]

1. n

a. → età f inv; (of thing) → anni mpl
old age → vecchiaia
what's his age?, what age is he? → quanti anni ha?
when I was your age → quando avevo la tua età
he doesn't look his age → non dimostra la sua età or i suoi anni
at the age of → all'età di
to come of age → diventare maggiorenne, raggiungere la maggiore età

b. (period) → epoca, era
the Iron Age → l'età del ferro

c. (fam) (long time) we waited (for) ages → abbiamo aspettato per ore
it's an age or ages since I saw him → sono secoli che non lo vedo

2. vt → fare invecchiare, invecchiare

3. vi → invecchiare

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age

n age [eidʒ]

1 the amount of time during which a person or thing has existed He went to school at the age of six (years); What age is she? ouderdom عُمْر، سِن възраст věk, stáří alder; alderstrin; levealder das Alter ηλικία edad iga سن ikä âge גִיל वय, उम्र dob kor umur aldur età 年齢 나이 amžius vecums; gadi umur leeftijd alder, alderstrinn, levealder wiek idade vârstă возраст vek, roky starost starost ålder อายุ yaş 年齡 вік, літа عمر tuổi 年龄

2 (often with capital) a particular period of time This machine was the wonder of the age; the Middle Ages. era عَصْر век věk, epocha tidsalder; -alder das Zeitalter ιστορική περίοδος, εποχή época, edad aeg زمانه؛ دوران aikakausi époque, âge תְקוּפָה, עִידָן युग vijek kor zaman tímabil, öld epoca, età 時代 시대 amžius laikmets; periods zaman tijdperk tidsalder wiek idade epocă, ev век; эпоха; период vek, epocha, doba doba, vek doba tid, tidevarv, period ยุค çağ 時期 вік, епоха وقت ، زمانہ thời đại 时期

3 the quality of being old This wine will improve with age; With the wisdom of age he regretted the mistakes he had made in his youth. ouderdom شَيْخُوخَه старост stáří alder das Alter πέρασμα του χρόνου, παλαιότητα edad vanus سالخوردگی vanhuus âge גִיל starost kor usia aldur età 年を重ねること 숙성 amžius laiks; gadi usia ouderdom alder wiek idade bătrâneţe; vechime старость;годы vek, staroba leta starost ålder, ålderdom[] ความมีอายุ yaşlılık, yaşlanma, eskime 年齡(年份)增加 вік, роки قدیم ہونا chín ngấu; từng trải 老年

4 (usually in plural) a very long time We've been waiting (for) ages for a bus. ewig فَتْرَة طَوِيلَه، دَهْر вечност věčnost evighed(er) die Ewigkeit(en) μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα (πληθ.) años, siglos pikka aega مدت ها pitkä aika éternité זְמָן רָב beskrajno dugo igen soká, régen lama sekali óratími secoli, eternità 長い間 오랫동안 šimtas metų, visas amžius ilgs laiks; mūžība masa yang lama eeuwigheid evighet(er) wiek séculos veşnicie вечность večnosť (celo) večnost večnost i en evighet, i evigheter เวลานาน çok uzun zaman 很長一段時間 дуже довгий строк ایک مدت سے thời gian dài 很长一段时间

v – present participle ˈag(e)ing –

to (cause to) grow old or look old He has aged a lot since I last saw him; His troubles have aged him. verouderd, oud geword يَشِيخ، يَهْرَم остарявам (ze)stárnout, dělat starým ældes; blive gammel altern γερνώ envejecer vananema, vanemaks tegema پیر شدن vanhentaa vieillir לְהִזְדַקֵן बूढ़ा होना ostarjeti öregszik menua, menjadi tua eldast, verða gamall invecchiare 年をとる 나이가 들다 sen(din)ti novecot menjadi tua (doen)verouderen eldes, bli gammel starzeć się, postarzać envelhecer a îmbătrâni стареть; стариться (zo)starnúť postarati (se) ostareo åldras มีอายุเพิ่มขึ้น; แก่ขึ้น yaşlanmak, ihtiyarlamak 變老，使變老 старіти معمر ہونا làm cho già đi 变老，使变老

adj aged

1  eidʒid old an aged man. verouderde طَاعِن فِي السِّن стар starý aldrende; gammel alt ηλικιωμένος viejo, anciano elatanud پیر؛ مسن iäkäs vieux זָקֶן बूढ़ा ostario idős tua aldraður, gamall anziano 年をとった 늙은 pagyvenęs padzīvojis; vecs berusia oud gammel, aldrende w podeszłym wieku idoso bătrân престарелый starý star, prileten u godinama gammal, ålderstigen สูงอายุ; แก่ yaşlı, yaşlanmış 年老的 в літах; старий معمر ، عمر رسیدہ có tuổi 年老的

2  eidʒd of the age of a child aged five. jaar oud عُمْرُه на възраст ve věku på [] år ...Jahre alt ηλικίας de (cinco años) de edad vanune به سن؛ -ساله ikäinen âgé de בְּגִיל उम्र u dobi éves berumur að aldri dell'età di ～才の ...세의 amžiaus (noteiktu gadu skaitu) vecs; -gadīgs berumur oud på (fem år) w wieku... lat com a idade de în vârstă de в возрасте таких-то лет vo veku star star i en ålder av ซึ่งมีอายุ ...yaşında ...歲的 віком عمر ، سِن tuổi ...岁的

adj ageless

never growing old or never looking older ageless beauty. ewigdurende دَائِم الشَّيَاب несотаряващ nestárnoucí tidløs zeitlos αγέραστος sin edad, eterno vananematu همیشه جوان iätön sans âge נִצְחִי, שֶׁלֹא מָרְאֶה סִימָנֵי גִיל सदाबहार bezvremenski kortalan awet muda síungur, ævarandi senza età, eterno 不老の 늙지 않는 nesenstantis, amžinas nenovecojošs; mūžīgs tidak menjadi tua eeuwig jong tidløs wieczny sem idade fără vârstă нестареющий nestarnúci ki mu ni videti let večit som aldrig åldras, tidlös ที่เป็นอมตะ yaşlanmaz, ihtiyarlamaz 永不衰老的，青春永駐的 нестаріючий سدا بہار trẻ mãi không già 不会老的

adj age-old

done, known etc for a very long time an age-old custom. stokou, eeue oue قَدِيم العَهْد вековен prastarý, odvěký ældgammel uralt παμπάλαιος ancestral igivana کهن ikivanha séculaire נִמְשַך זְמָן רָב पुराना prastar ősrégi sepanjang zaman aldagamall, ævaforn secolare, antico 古くからの 예로부터의 labai senas mūžsens lama eeuwenoud eldgammel odwieczny antigo străvechi очень давний prastarý, odveký prastar drevan urgammal เก่าแก่ eskiden beri bilinen 古老的 віковий; дуже давній lâu đời 古老的

the aged [ˈeidʒid]

old people care for the aged. oumense المُسِنُّون възрастните staří (lidé) de ældre; de gamle alte Menschen, die Alten οι ηλικιωμένοι ancianos, personas mayores, tercera edad vanurid سالمند iäkkäät gens âgés הַזְקֶנִים बूढ़े stari az öregek orang lanjut usia, manula aldraðir gli anziani 老人 노인 senyvo amžiaus žmonės, senimas vecie cilvēki orang-orang tua bejaarden de gamle, de eldre starsi, ludzie w podeszłym wieku idosos vârstnicii, bătrânii престарелые starí ostareli stari ljudi de gamla ผู้สูงอายุ yaşlılar 老人 старі عمر رسیدہ người cao tuổi 老人

(come) of age

(to become) old enough to be considered legally an adult (eg in Britain aged eighteen or over). meerderjarig word سِن الرُّشْد القَانُونِي ставам пълнолетен dosáhnout zletilosti blive myndig volljährig (werden) ενηλικιώνομαι täisealiseks saama به سن قانونی رسیدن saavuttaa täysi-ikäisyys atteindre sa majorité לְהַגִיע לְבָּגְרוּת परिपक्व होना ostarjeti nagykorú(vá válik) cukup umur verða fullveðja/fullorðinn diventare maggiorenne 成人となる 성년이 되다 tapti pilnamečiu pilngadīgs; sasniegt pilngadību cukup umur meerderjarig bli myndig osiągnać dojrzałość (atingir) a maioridade (a deveni) major достичь совершеннолетия dospieť postati polnoleten postati punoletan [] myndig บรรลุนิติภาวะ ergenlik yaşına (erişmek) 成年 досягти повноліття قانونی عمر کو پہنچنا trưởng thành 成年

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age → سِن المرء věk alder Alter ηλικία edad ikä âge dob età 年齢 나이 leeftijd alder wiek idade возраст ålder อายุ yaş tuổi 年龄