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age is a noun and verb meaning "how long something has existed". It carries 8 recorded senses.
how long something has existed
“it was replaced because of its age”
an era of history having some distinctive feature
“we live in a litigious age”
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
“she was now of school age”
“tall for his eld”
a prolonged period of time
“we've known each other for ages”
“I haven't been there for years and years”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for age come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.