Word Finder - age

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

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

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One of the stages of life.

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the age of infancy

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

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the age of consent; the age of discretion

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

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the golden age; the age of Pericles

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A great period in the history of the Earth.

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

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A period of one hundred years; a century.

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The people who live during a particular period.

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A generation.

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There are three ages living in her house.

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A long time.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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to come of age; she is now of age

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

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

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

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Grief ages us.

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

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

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To categorize by age.

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One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

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

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He grew fat as he aged.

He sold his first painting at age fifteen – something like $17,000.

At her age, the words sounded strange.

About your age, I guess.

Giving up a child of any age had to be difficult.

What do you do at age thirty, or, if you're lucky, forty?

We were not born in that age that had no word for change.

This is not a defense of our present age; we will come to our own report card soon enough.

When at the age of fourteen she had had but a few lessons in German, she read over the words of "Wilhelm Tell" and managed to get the story.

This is an age of workers, not of thinkers.

When she was stricken down with the illness which resulted in her loss of sight and hearing, at the age of nineteen months, she was learning to talk.

He looked to be about her age and his blond hair was neatly combed into a fashionable style.

Kind of makes you wonder what they were up to when she was my age, doesn't it?

What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

The children were all elementary age, their dismembered bodies nothing but carnage.

We based the age on when the ownership of the mine changed hands and when it was last worked.

Dean knew from reading their newspaper comments and hearing of their exploits that age had in no way diminished their faculties.

He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.

Even his many years absence from visiting Ouray no longer eliminated him as a suspect now that the age of the bones was uncertain.

She recalled nothing beyond her human age of twenty-six years.

It is found in flat rolled pieces, irregularly distributed through a blue clay probably of Miocene age.

In our modern age, people disagree not just in terms of values they apply to knowledge, but they disagree on actual pieces of knowledge.

They will take advantage of the freedom from financial want that the modern age gives them and will focus on improving themselves and the world they live in.

Last week she made her doll an apron, and it was done as well as any child of her age could do it.

She always reads such books as seeing and hearing children of her age read and enjoy.

I could always tell if visitors had called in my absence, either by the bended twigs or grass, or the print of their shoes, and generally of what sex or age or quality they were by some slight trace left, as a flower dropped, or a bunch of grass plucked and thrown away, even as far off as the railroad, half a mile distant, or by the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe.

The Golden Age was first created, which without any avenger Spontaneously without law cherished fidelity and rectitude.

The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike.

I was sowing wild oats at that age and not thinking clearly.

In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

He rose to leave and then added, Whatever the age of that skeleton, the facts still remain that someone swapped the bones, someone stole the finger and 'metalman29' was offering an inflated price for the mine.

His age was wrong but that was when they suspected Martha's bones dated back to the 1960s.

It has been found in Mycenaean tombs; it is known from lake-dwellings in Switzerland, and it occurs with neolithic remains in Denmark, whilst in England it is found with interments of the bronze age.

The implication is that any time they nursed, they felt pain as well, to learn at an early age that there is no pleasure to be had in life without pain.

Their aim, he said, was nothing less than "the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace."

They need the Internet, mobile phones, computers, and the other accoutrements of the modern age for the wealth they bring.

Long before English became the lingua franca of the Internet age, the world has wanted a common language.

As a historian, I know it has been the vanity of every age to think it represents a high point in history.

I hope that, after reading this far, you appreciate that for our age, this is no idle boast.

They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

At your age I was married.

We lost his mother to cancer at an early age and his father is in jail, convicted of fraud.

A brother would make the most sense, given the age difference.

To create a fake identity, one would need at a minimum, our age, physical description and picture.

Most of our cases proved to be runaways or missing persons and our limitations due to non-specific known time or age of the event continued to plague us.

No warrior wants to die of old age, he said.

If there was a way to make him see what was in her head … to make him remember … she focused on Damian's memories, the ones before the dark age, when he and his brother were happy.

I tried to make a photographer out of my godson Billy, but I'm afraid at his age there are a lot more interesting things to do, and they all have female names.

If we had a better description of them it might pinpoint the age of the victim.

Destiny was big for her age.

Jetr, the only Council member he trusted, had been an ally for three generations of his family without appearing to age.