📒 the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
- You're the same age as my brother.
- When I was your age I was already married.
- ways of calculating the age of the earth
📒 a very long time
- It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
- for ages I waited for ages.
- ages ago Carlos left ages ago.
📒 a particular period of a person’s life
- in middle/old age
- 15 is an awkward age.
- She dreaded old age.
📒 a particular period of history
- the nuclear age
- We live in an age of globalization.
- through the ages a study of fashion through the ages
📒 the state of being old
- The jacket was showing signs of age.
- White hair is a sign of great age.
- with age Wine improves with age.
📒 a length of time that is a division of an epoch
📒 to behave in a way that is suitable for somebody of your age and not as though you were much younger
- Isn’t it time you started acting your age?
📒 when a person comes of age, they reach the age when they have an adult’s legal rights and responsibilities
- The money will go to the children when they come of age.
📒 if something comes of age, it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it
- It was the year that concern for the environment really came of age.
📒 to realize that you are getting old, especially compared with people you are with who are younger than you
📒 a great age
- She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70.
📒 now, in the modern world
- Slavery continues to exist, even in this day and age.
- Why dress so formally in this day and age?
📒 to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older
- She doesn’t look her age; I thought she was ten years younger.
📒 used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’
- He was a man of advanced years.
- (humorous) Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!
📒 if you talk about a person being of a certain age, you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old
- The show appeals to an audience of a certain age.
📒 an age that is considered to be very old
- He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
📒 not legally old enough to do a particular thing
- It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age.