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Age

/eɪd͡ʒ/

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.

📖 Definitions of "Age"

noun
  1. 1

    The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.

  2. 2

    The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.

  3. 3

    One of the stages of life.

    "the age of infancy"

  4. 4

    The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

    "the age of consent; the age of discretion"

verb
  1. 1

    To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

    "Grief ages us."

  2. 2

    To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

    "Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so."

  3. 3

    To categorize by age.

    "One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."

  4. 4

    To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

    "He grew fat as he aged."

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