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3-letter words (2 found)

AGE,GAE,

2-letter words (3 found)

AE,AG,EA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of age

age

Etymology

From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge.

Displaced native Old English ieldu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

  1. (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
  2. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
  3. (countable) One of the stages of life.
  4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
  5. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
  6. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
  7. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
  8. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
  9. (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
  10. (countable) A generation.
  11. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
  13. (countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
  14. (countable, poker) 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.
  15. (uncountable) 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.
  16. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
  17. (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
    • 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:
      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.

Synonyms

  • (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime
  • (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld
  • (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era
  • (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred
  • (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
  • (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

  1. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
  2. (intransitive, informal, of a statement, prediction) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
  3. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
  5. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
  6. (transitive) To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.

Synonyms

  • (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
  • (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
  • Appendix:Age by decade

Further reading

  • “age”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “age”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, which is also the source of Latin agō (whence also Danish agere), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːɣə/, [ˈæːjə], [ˈæːæ]
  • Homophone: ae

Verb

age (past tense agede, past participle aget)

  1. (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
  2. (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport

Conjugation

Further reading

  • “age” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Ca. 1800, from a dialectal (southern Oïl or Franco-Provençal) form of haie, from Frankish *haggju. Cognate with English hedge, which see for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʒ/
  • Rhymes: -aʒ
  • Homophones: ages (general), âge, âges (some speakers)

Noun

age m (plural ages)

  1. beam (central bar of a plough)
  2. shaft

Further reading

  • “age”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

age

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of agir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

Alternative forms

  • aige

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɛɡə/

Preposition

age

  1. Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)

Japanese

Romanization

age

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あげ

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).

Adjective

age

  1. rotten

Related terms

  • b-āge-jaŋ
  • d́āgejaŋ

Latin

Etymology

Imperative form of agō

Interjection

age

  1. well now, well then, come now (transition)
  2. very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)

Verb

age

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of agō

Mapudungun

Noun

age (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) face

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem.

Alternative forms

  • aage, ayge (both rare)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

age (plural ages)

  1. The age of someone (or rarely something); how old someone is.
  2. The correct or traditional age for something (especially the age of maturity)
  3. Old age or senescence; the state of being old or elderly.
  4. The life of something or someone; an extent of existence.
  5. A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
  6. Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
  7. (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is a particular age.
Related terms
  • agen
Descendants
  • English: age
  • Scots: age
References
  • “āǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Etymology 2

Noun

age

  1. Alternative form of awe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɑː.jə/, /²ɑː.ɡə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz. Cognates include English awe.

Alternative forms

  • aga, agje, ågå

Noun

age m (definite singular agen, indefinite plural agar, definite plural agane)

  1. awe
  2. deference
  3. esteem, reverence

Etymology 2

From Old Norse aga.

Alternative forms

  • aga

Verb

age (present tense agar, past tense aga, past participle aga, passive infinitive agast, present participle agande, imperative age/ag)

  1. to chastise, subdue
  2. to impress
  3. to agitate
  4. to scare

References

  • “age” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • Ivar Aasen (1850) “aga”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎[4] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  • Ivar Aasen (1850) “Agje”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎[5] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Anagrams

  • ega

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

  • āg

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ēage, Old Saxon ōga and Old Dutch ōga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːɣe/

Noun

āge n

  1. (anatomy) eye

Inflection

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    Most dialects: uug
    Goesharde: uug, uuch
    Halligen: uuch
    Heligoland: Oog
    Sylt: Oog
  • Saterland Frisian: Oge
  • West Frisian: each

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

age

  1. inflection of agir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English age, from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ed͡ʒ/

Noun

age (plural ages)

  1. age

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle agin, simple past aged, past participle aged)

  1. to age

References

  • “age, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
  • Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Verb

age

  1. inflection of agir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈa.ɡe]

Noun

age

  1. the trunk of a tree, tree trunk
  2. levee, embankment

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /à.ɡé/

Noun

àgé

  1. kettle
    Synonym: kẹ́tùrù

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