OLD AGE


Meaning of OLD AGE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ advanced , extreme

▪ happy

She can look forward to a happy ~.

▪ lonely ( esp. BrE )

fears about a lonely ~

VERB + OLD AGE

▪ live to , reach , survive into , survive to

My grandparents survived into advanced ~.

▪ approach

▪ die of

OLD-AGE + NOUN

▪ pension , pensioner (both BrE )

I'll soon be drawing my old-age pension.

PREPOSITION

▪ in (your) ~

Loss of hearing often occurs in ~.

He took up golf in his ~.

▪ into ~

She was now well into ~.

PHRASES

▪ the grand ~ of sth , the ripe ~ of sth

She lived to the ripe ~ of 98.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .