AGATE

[noun] [C or U] - a hard stone with strips of colour used in jewellery age (TIME SPENT ALIVE) [noun] - the period of time someone has been alive or something has existedHe never lets anyone know his real age. [C]Do you know the age of that building? [C]What age (= how old) is your brother? [C]He's about your age. [C]He's about the same age as you. [C]She was 74 years of age when she wrote her first novel. [U]He left home at the age of 16. [C]I was married with four children at your age (when I was your age). [C]You should know better at your age. [C]Oh be/act your age (= behave in a way suitable for someone as old as you)! [C]She's starting to show/look her age (= to look as old as she is). [C]I'm really beginning to feel my age (= feel old). [C]His girlfriend's twice his age (= twice as old as he is). [C]Her skin was loose and wrinkled with (= because of) age. [U]This cheese/wine improves with age (= as it gets older). [U]Her temper doesn't improved with age! [U]"What's the age limit?" "You have to be over 16."He was prosecuted for having sex with a girl who was under age (= younger than the age at which it is legal to have sex). [U]The clothes are being marketed for people in the over-50 age group (= all the people who are over 50)The programmes are aimed at viewers in the 18-30 age range.51% of enquiries were from those in the 25 to 40 age bracket.To come/be of age means to reach or be the age when you are legally recognized as an adult and become old enough to vote.If something has come of age, it has reached its full successful development.On the basis of this exhibition, her art can be said to have finally come of age.If something is age-related, it happens mostly to people of a particular age.The disease is known to be strongly age-related.Under-age drinkers are people who are too young to drink alcohol in public places (younger than 18 in Britain and Australia) and do so illegally.The age of consent is the age at which someone is considered by the law to be old enough to agree to have sex with someone.