Word Finder - ages

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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.

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A long time.

They take ages to grow.

This will be a scientific announcement for the ages, more than DNA, cloning, everything!

You.ve been my lover for ages, and I am doing you a favor.

The old ones say this chamber was built ages before man.

It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me.

No darkness lasts the ages.

The restaurant is family-friendly and open to diners of all ages.

For the first time in ages, Dusty was falling asleep at his computer.

Throughout the middle ages, moreover, the word alba was somewhat loosely used.

As a child she had already believed herself to have visions; these now became more frequent, and her records of these "revelations," which were tanslated into Latin by Matthias, canon of Linkoping, and by her confessor, Peter, prior of Alvastra, obtained a great vogue during the middle ages.

The large number of Slavonic local names in Albania, even in districts where no trace of a Slavonic population exists, bears witness to the extensive Servian and Bulgarian immigrations in the early middle ages, but the original inhabitants gradually ousted or assimilated the invaders.

All French sailors between the ages of eighteen and fifty must be enrolled as members of the armte de me,.

We did it all the time in the Dark Ages.

Something about the woman made him think of things he'd not thought about in ages.

Hand brake's been busted for ages.

They were a well-traveled group for their uniformly young ages.

Primary Inslruction.All primary public instruction is free and compulsory for children of both sexes between the ages of six and thirteen, but if a child can gain a certificate of primary studies at the age of eleven or after, he may be excused the rest of the period demanded by law.

In the later middle ages these courts had jurisdiction over most questions, except indeed the then most important ones, those relating to real property.

The " ordinary " ecclesiastical tribunals of the later middle ages still subsist in England, at least as regards the laity.

In the middle ages, meat, eggs and milk were forbidden in Lent not only by ecclesiastical but by statute law; and this rule was enforced until the reign of William III.

In the middle ages the nocturnal vigilia were, except in the monasteries, gradually discontinued, matins and vespers on the preceding day, with fasting, taking their place.

He may be said to have set the pattern which was followed in succeeding ages by the compilers of " political geographies " Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Erdkunde der Griechen (Leipzig, 1891), Abt.

The middle ages saw geographical knowledge die out in Christendom, although it retained, through the Arabic translations of Ptolemy, a certain vitality in Islam.

Progress Of Geographical Discovery Exploration and geographical discovery must have started from more than one centre, and to deal justly with the matter one ought to treat of these separately in the early ages before the whole civilized world was bound together by the bonds of modern intercommunication.

Alfred the Great, king of the Salons in England, not only educated his people in the learning of the past ages; he inserted in the geographical works he translated many narratives of the travel of his own time.

Interesting regions, Close of known only by the scant reports of pilgrims, were made the dark the objects of attention and study; while religious zeal, ages.

The work of Marco Polo is the most valuable narrative of travels that appeared during the middle ages, and despite a cold reception and many denials of the accuracy of the record, its substantial truthfulness has been abundantly proved.

C. Geographical Distribution The study of the extinct organisms of any country leads to a proper appreciation of its existing flora and fauna; while, on the other hand, a due consideration of the plants and animals which may predominate within its bounds cannot fail to throw more or less light on the changes it has in the course of ages undergone.

We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

Oh yes, mon cher, he is the greatest man of the ages past or future.

Several of the beefy men living in the house were in the grassy, well-lit courtyard, sparring with swords, knives, and other weaponry that looked like it came straight out of the Middle Ages.

Between them they rendered into Hebrew all the chief Jewish writings of the middle ages.

We shall suppose they did it upon great consideration and weighing of the matter, and it would be very strange and very ill if we should disturb and set aside what has been the course for a long series of times and ages."

The Roman emperors recognized it as a free state, and in the middle ages it was called Stampalia, and belonged to the noble Venetian family of Quirini.

In the middle ages Ostia regained something of its importance, owing to the silting up of the right arm of the Tiber.

But the most remarkable memorial of the middle ages that exists in all this district is the monastery of Sumelas, which is situated about 25 m.

Gold mines were worked in antiquity in the Drin valley, and silver mines in the Mirdite region were known to the Venetians in the middle ages.

The determination with which this remarkable race has maintained its mountain stronghold through a long series of ages has hitherto met with scant appreciation in the outside world.

Lake Chad is supposed to have been known by report to Ptolemy, and is identified by some writers with the Kura lake of the middle ages.

The higher Australian peaks in the south-east look just what they are, the worn and denuded stumps of mountains, standing for untold ages above the sea.

Education is very widely distributed, and in every state it is compulsory for children of school ages to attend school.

The statutory ages differ in the various states; in New South Wales and Western Australia it is from 6 to 13 years inclusive, in Victoria 6 to 12 years, in Queensland 6 to II years, and in South Australia 7 to 12 years inclusive.

The intelligence was made known in April or May; and then began a rush of thousands, - men leaving their former employments in the bush or in the towns to search for the ore so greatly coveted in all ages.

During the whole of the middle ages Tournai was styled the "seigneurie de Tournaisis," and possessed a charter and special privileges of its own.

The schools are open to all children between the ages of 5 and 20, and attendance for twenty-six weeks in each year is made compulsory for those who are between the ages of 8 and 15.

It was a popular opinion in the middle ages that extreme unction extinguishes all ties and links with this world, so that he who has received it must, if he recovers, renounce the eating of flesh and matrimonial relations.

It is situated on the canal from Bruges to Sluys (Ecluse), but in the middle ages a navigable channel or river called the Zwyn gave ships access to it from the North Sea.

It was well known during the middle ages, and was largely used by William, archbishop of Tyre, for the first six books of his Belli sacri historic. In modern times its historical value has been seriously impugned, but the verdict of the best scholarship seems to be that in general it forms a true record of the events of the first crusade, although containing some legendary matter.

In the middle ages Plautus was little regarded, and twelve of his plays (Bacchides - Truculentus) disappeared from view until they were discovered (in the MS. called D) by Nicholas of Troves in the year 1429.

The county of Lingen, of which this town was the capital, was united in the middle ages with the county of Tecklenburg.