old age

Questions about old age

What does old age mean?

old age means "a late time of life".

What is another word for old age?

Close synonyms include years, age, eld, geezerhood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old age a common word?

old age is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.