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noun

• The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.

• The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.

• One of the stages of life.

  Example: the age of infancy

• The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

  Example: the age of consent; the age of discretion

• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

  Example: the golden age; the age of Pericles

• A great period in the history of the Earth.

  Example: the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch

• A period of one hundred years; a century.

• The people who live during a particular period.

• A generation.

  Example: There are three ages living in her house.

• A long time.

  Example: It’s been an age since we last saw you.

• A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.

• The right 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.

• That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

  Example: What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

• Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

  Example: to come of age; she is now of age

• An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

  Example: Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

verb

• To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

  Example: Grief ages us.

• To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

  Example: Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.

• To categorize by age.

  Example: One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

• To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

  Example: He grew fat as he aged.