Meaning of old age | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
   uncountable
2. The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement.
3. A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.
   uncountable

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Examples

“People often become hard of hearing in old age.”

“A ripe old age.”

“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" philosophy of the Old Age.”

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