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age

noun as in period of animate existence

noun as in a period of time

verb as in become older

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However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.

Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.

You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.

He began his military career at the age of 11, and continued in the service nearly 60 years.

His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to age, such as: life, maturity, old age, youth, adolescence, and adulthood.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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