Dictionary Entry
age
age is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
- 2noun
That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
- 3noun
The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
- 4noun
One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
- 5noun
Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
- 6noun
The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
- 7noun
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
- 8noun
A great period in the history of the Earth.
- 9noun
A century; the period of one hundred years.
- 10noun
The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
- 11noun
A long time.
- 12intransitive verb
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
- 13transitive verb
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
- 14noun
how long something has existed
"it was replaced because of its age"
- 15noun
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"
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- 16noun
a late time of life
"old age is not for sissies"
"he's showing his years"
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- 17noun
a prolonged period of time
"we've known each other for ages"
"I haven't been there for years and years"
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- 18noun
an era of history having some distinctive feature
"we live in a litigious age"
- 19verb
grow old or older
"She aged gracefully"
"we age every day--what a depressing thought!"
- 20verb
begin to seem older; get older
"The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
- 21verb
make older
"The death of his child aged him tremendously"
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