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Noun age has 5 senses

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:

Elizabethan age; Victorian age; antiquity; golden age; Middle Ages, Dark Ages; Renaissance; industrial revolution, technological revolution; Reign of Terror; reign; turn of the century; Harlem Renaissance; New Deal; Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period; Restoration

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:
sixties, mid-sixties; seventies, mid-seventies; eighties, mid-eighties; nineties, mid-nineties
--₄ has particulars: dotage, second childhood, senility
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

Verb age has 3 senses

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

Derived forms: noun age₃, noun age₄
Sample sentences:
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

Derived form: noun age₄
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody