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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'Age' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions Age noun  Formal use of the word age, indicating the name of a specific era.       age noun  The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time. What is the present of a man, or of the earth? The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities. to come of he (or she) is of The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested. the of consent the of discretion A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others. the golden the of Pericles A great period in the history of the Earth. A century; the period of one hundred years. The people who live at a particular period. Hence, a generation. A long time. Translations:  Dutch: generatie(nl)f French: génération(fr)f German: Generation(de)f Italian: generazione(it)f Spanish: generación(es)f verb (ages, ageing or in the US aging, aged) (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. grief ages us (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age. he grew fat as he aged Translations:  Dutch: nl(nl, oud worden}}, t-)verouderen German: de(de, alt werden, vergreisen(de, í¤lter werden}}, (t-, de, altern), {{t-, de), {{t-)reifen Etymology: From (term, aage, lang=fro) (French (term, íge, lang=fr)), supposedly from (term, aetaticum, lang=la), from (term, aetas, lang=la), from (term, aevum, , lifetime, lang=la).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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