age

Noun

• a late time of life
  • old age is not for sissies
    
  • he's showing his years
    
  • age hasn't slowed him down at all
    
  • a beard white with eld
    
  • on the brink of geezerhood
    

• a prolonged period of time
  • we've known each other for ages
    
  • I haven't been there for years and years
    

• 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
    

• an era of history having some distinctive feature
  • we live in a litigious age
    

• how long something has existed
  • it was replaced because of its age
    

Verb

• make older
  • The death of his child aged him tremendously
    

• grow old or older
  • She aged gracefully
    
  • we age every day--what a depressing thought!
    
  • Young men senesce
    

• begin to seem older; get older
  • The death of his wife caused him to age fast
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  old age , years , eld , geezerhood , long time , historic period , senesce , get on , mature , maturate