AGE


Meaning of AGE in English

n. 25B6; noun

he is 35 years of age : NUMBER OF YEARS, length of life; stage of life, generation, age group.

her hearing had deteriorated with age : ELDERLINESS, old age, oldness, senescence, seniority, maturity; one's advancing/advanced/declining years; poetic/literary eld; archaic caducity.

the Elizabethan age : ERA, epoch, period, time. See list.

(informal) you haven't been in touch with me for ages : A LONG TIME, days/months/years on end, an eternity; informal ages and ages, donkey's years, a month of Sundays; Brit. informal yonks.

25B6; verb Cabernet Sauvignon ages well 007C; the experience has aged her : MATURE, mellow, ripen; grow/become/make old, (cause to) decline.

Geological Ages

Archaean/Azoic period Palaeocene epoch

Cambrian period Palaeozoic era

Carboniferous period Permian period

Cenozoic era Phanerozoic aeon

Cretaceous period Pleistocene epoch

Devonian period Pliocene epoch

Eocene epoch Precambrian era

Holocene epoch Proterozoic aeon

Jurassic period Quaternary period

Mesozoic era Silurian period

Miocene epoch Tertiary period

Oligocene epoch Triassic period

Ordovician period

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