age
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noun- 1.
(countable)The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
"What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.
What is the present age of the earth?
I have a daughter your age, and I tell her when I was your age I was already working.
You should play with kids the same age as you.
At your age, your mom and I'd already found a job.
We both have kids under age four.
- 2.
(uncountable)The state of being old; the latter part of life.
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Đồng nghĩa: old age, dotage, senility, seniority, age, chair days, codgerhood, eld, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom, golden years, old age, oldhood, senescence, senectitude, superannuation, twilight years, sunset years, vetustity
- 3.
(countable)Any particular stage of life.
the age of infancy
- 4.
(countable)The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
the age of consent; the age of discretion
- 5.
(uncountable)Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
to come of age; she is now of age
Đồng nghĩa: majority, adulthood
- 6.
(countable)A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
Đồng nghĩa: epoch, time, era, age, cycle, day, epoch, era, generation, Great Year, interval, period, Platonic year, time
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- 8.
(countable)A period of one hundred years; a century.
Đồng nghĩa: centennium
- 9.
(countable, dated, possibly, uncommon)(countable, uncommon, possibly dated) A generation.
There are three ages living in her house.
- 10.
(countable, excessive)(countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
It’s been an age since we last saw you.
Đồng nghĩa: eternity, yonks, aeon, age, ages, blue moon, coon's age, crow's age, dog's age, donkey's years, eld, eon, eternity, forever, forever and a day, interim, interlude, interval, lifetime, long haul, long run, meantime, minute, month of Sundays, spell, while, years, yonks
- 11.
(countable)Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
The age of man is three score years and ten.
Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.
Done at London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in the fifty-eighth year of my age.
- 12.
(countable)(countable, poker) The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
He grew fat as he aged.
- 2.
(transitive)To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
Grief ages us.
- 3.
(transitive)To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
There are several ways to age trees.
- 4.
(transitive)To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
- 5.
(figuratively, transitive)To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
- 6.
(transitive)(transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
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age of
giới từ đi kèm
old age
cụm thông dụng
age gracefully
cụm thông dụng
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ine-pro From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (lifetime), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (vital force). Compare âge. Displaced native ieldu.