English Online Dictionary. What means age? What does age mean?
English
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)
- (countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
- (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.
- Synonyms: old age, dotage, senility, seniority; see also Thesaurus:old age
- Antonym: youth
- 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.
- (countable) Any particular stage of life.
- (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- Synonyms: majority, adulthood
- (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- Synonyms: epoch, time, era; see also Thesaurus:era
- The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
- (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
- (countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
- Synonym: centennium
- (countable, uncommon, possibly dated) A generation.
- (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
- Synonyms: eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
- (countable) Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
- (countable, poker) The entitlement 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.
Usage notes
The age of a person or an animal is often given just as a number, implied to be a number of years. For example "What is the age of your son?" — "Ten." (meaning ten years). With other subjects, units are specified even when years. For example "What is the age of this fossil?" — "Three million years." (not "Three million.")
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)
- (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- (intransitive, of a statement, prediction, etc.) To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
- (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To allow to mature.
- To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
- To allow to mature.
- (transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
- (transitive) To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
- (transitive, figuratively) To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
- (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
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 OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “age”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “age”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- G. E. A., EGA, Ega, GAE
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)
- (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
- (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. Doublet of haie and quai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʒ/
- Rhymes: -aʒ
- Homophones: ages (general), âge, âges (some speakers)
Noun
age m (plural ages)
- beam (central bar of a plough)
- shaft
Further reading
- “age”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Verb
age
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of agir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Irish
Alternative forms
- aige
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɛɡə/
Preposition
age
- Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
Japanese
Romanization
age
- 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
- rotten
Related terms
- b-āge-jaŋ
- d́āgejaŋ
Latin
Etymology
Imperative form of agō
Interjection
age
- well now, well then, come now (transition)
- very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)
Verb
age
- second-person singular present active imperative of agō
Mapudungun
Noun
age (Raguileo spelling)
- (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)
- The age of someone (or rarely something); how old someone is.
- The correct or traditional age for something (especially the age of maturity)
- Old age or senescence; the state of being old or elderly.
- The life of something or someone; an extent of existence.
- A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
- Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
- (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
- 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)
- awe
- deference
- 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)
- to chastise, subdue
- to impress
- to agitate
- 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 English
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑː.ɡe/, [ˈɑː.ɣe]
Verb
āge
- inflection of āgan:
- singular present subjunctive
- singular imperative
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
- (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
- inflection of agir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- 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)
- age
Verb
age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle agin, simple past aged, past participle aged)
- to age
References
- “age, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
Verb
age
- inflection of agir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈa.ɡe]
Noun
age
- the trunk of a tree, tree trunk
- 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
- kettle
- Synonym: kẹ́tùrù