Looking for the meaning or definition of the word age? Here's what it means.
Noun
The whole duration of a being being alive, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind
The amount of full years/months/days/hours etc. which someone, or something, has been alive
(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.
(uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
(countable) One of the stages of life
(uncountable)Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
(countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
The people who live at a particular period.
(countable) A generation.
(countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
(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 eldesthand.
Verb
(transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
(transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
(transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
(intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
