age

Main Entry:
age [eyj]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: period of animate existence
Synonyms: adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth
Notes: epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time
Main Entry: age
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become older
Synonyms: decline, deteriorate, develop, get along, grow, grow feeble, grow old, grow up, mature, mellow, push, put mileage on, ripen, wane
Notes: epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time
Related Words
Main Entry: age
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, gray, gray, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, time, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Age.
Category: 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession
Synonyms:
-nouns
age; oldness; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life., seniority, eldership; elders (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture., [Science of old age] geriatrics, nostology.
-verbs
be aged; grow old, get old; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.
-adjectives
aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting (imbecile); like the last of pea time., older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro [Japanese]., turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal (ancient); gerontic.
-adverbs
pro tem
-phrases
"give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes ["Old men are boys again" (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux ["Few know how to be old" (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. "Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors" (Latin)]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks
Antonyms: youth, adolescence
Browse Concept Index »
Main Entry: antiquity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: oldness
Synonyms: age, ancientness, antiqueness, archaicism, archaism, elderliness, hoariness, old age, venerableness
Antonyms: convention, modernity, newness
Main Entry: cycle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: era, phase
Synonyms: aeon, age, alternation, chain, circle, circuit, course, eon, isochronism, loop, orbit, period, periodicity, revolution, rhythm, ring, rotation, round, run, sequel, sequence, series, succession, wheel
Notes: a single to-and-fro movement of an air particle is called a cycle and the number of cycles that occur in a second is known as the frequency of a sound
Main Entry: date
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: point in time; particular day or time
Synonyms: age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year
Main Entry: day
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: era
Synonyms: age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, period, prime, term, time, years, zenith
Main Entry: develop
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cultivate, prosper
Synonyms: advance, age, enroot, establish, evolve, expand, flourish, foster, grow, grow up, maturate, mature, mellow, progress, promote, ripen, thrive
Antonyms: halt, repress
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