Meaning of age | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Angal
2. century
3. Initialism of advanced glycation end-product.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
4. 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)
   countable
5. The state of being old; the latter part of life.
   uncountable
6. 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)
7. 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.
8. age (significant period of time)
9. Initialism of agarose gel electrophoresis.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
10. Any particular stage of life.
    countable
11. The state of being old; the latter part of life
12. To reach maturity.
13. eon
14. Initialism of allyl glycidyl ether.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
15. Any particular stage of life
16. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
    countable
17. of age, having reached adulthood, esp. as specified by law: to come of age.
18. Initialism of arterial gas embolism.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
19. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested
20. Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
    uncountable
21. a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring orig. in loanwords from French (courage; voyage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of” (spoilage; wreckage), “place of living or business” (brokerage; parsonage), “social standing...
    courage; voyage
22. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
    countable
23. discrimination on the basis of age, especially against older people.
24. the process of making antiquated or the condition of being antiquated.
25. The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
    countable, uncountable
26. coevalneity. — coetaneous, adj.
27. A great period in the history of the Earth.
    countable
28. the state or quality of being alike in age or duration; contemporaneity. Also called coetaneity. — coeval, aadj.
29. The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
    countable
30. the condition of being junior, as in age, rank, or position.
31. One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
    countable, uncountable
32. the state of being in one’s forties. — quadragenarian, n., adj. — quadragenary, adj.
33. A period of one hundred years; a century.
    countable
34. A generation.
    countable, dated, possibly, uncommon
35. A long time.
    countable, excessive
36. Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
    countable
37. The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
    countable

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Examples

“"What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)”

“What were their ages at the time of their marriage?”

“We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.”

“What is the present age of the earth?”

“I have a daughter your age, and I tell her when I was your age I was already working.”

“You should play with kids the same age as you.”

“At your age, your mom and I'd already found a job.”

“We both have kids under age four.”

“Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.”

“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.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“the age of infancy”

“the age of consent; the age of discretion”

“to come of age; she is now of age”

“the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age”

“Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings ^([sic]).”

“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.”

“the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs”

“The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.”

“The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.”

“Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.”

“There are three ages living in her house.”

“It’s been an age since we last saw you.”

“The age of man is three score years and ten.”

“Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.”

“The CHAIRMAN said if Lord Bacon had asserted that man's age exceeded that of all other living creatures, he must have included the patriarchs in his calculation. Without doubt the age of many animals exceeded that of man. [...] Indeed, if the assumed age of the patriarchs be correct, it is against our own experience, it being an admitted fact that the duration of human life has increased. The age of the patriarchs was by some attributed to the effect of certain waters upon the cartilages.”

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