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Ages

/ˈeɪ.dʒɪz/

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

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noun

1
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2
The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3
One of the stages of life.
"the age of infancy"
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
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
"Grief ages us."
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
To categorize by age.
"One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."
4
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
"He grew fat as he aged."

noun

1
A long time.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ages"

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Word	Definition
old agenoun	The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
matureverb	Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
maturateverb	(transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
yearsnoun	(colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.
get onverb	(intransitive) To cope or manage (over time); to handle a situation; to perform or make progress.
long timenoun	(Thailand, Indonesia, prostitution) A meeting with a sex worker that usually lasts the entire night.
lifespannoun	(biology) The length of time for which an organism lives.
oldnoun	(with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
elderlynoun	(with definite article, collective) Older people as a whole.
reconstructionnoun	The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
rebuildingnoun	The act of building something again.
oldernoun	elderly
legendnoun	A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.
youngnoun	(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
youthnoun	(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
timesnoun	The circumstances of a certain time.
constructionnoun	The process of constructing.
ansnoun	A municipality in Liège province, Belgium.
yrsnoun	Abbreviation of years; plural of yr. [(colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.]
gatnoun	(originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.