- age - how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"
--1 is a kind of property
--1 has particulars:chronological age; bone age; developmental age; fetal age, fertilization age, gestational age; mental age; oldness; newness; oldness; youngness - historic period, age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
--2 is a kind of era, epoch
--2 is a part of history
--2 has particulars:- age, eld - a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"
--3 is a kind of time of life
--3 is a part of life, lifetime, lifespan
--3 has particulars:age of consent; majority, legal age; minority, nonage; drinking age; voting age Derived form: verb age2 - old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood - 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"
--4 is a kind of time of life
--4 has parts:
--4 has particulars: dotage, second childhood, senilitysixties, mid-sixties; seventies, mid-seventies; eighties, mid-eighties; nineties, mid-nineties Derived forms: verb age3, verb age2 - long time, age, years - a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
--5 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--5 has particulars:long; month of Sundays; eon, aeon; blue moon; year dot - historic period, age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
- age - begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
--1 is one way to develop
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue age
- senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate - grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
--2 is one way to develop
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun age3, noun age4
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- age - make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: rejuvenate
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun age4
Something ----s somebody
- senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate - grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"