age
noun
[ eɪdʒ ]
• the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.
• "he died from a heart attack at the age of 51"
Similar:
number of years,
lifetime,
duration,
length of life,
stage of life,
generation,
age group,
peer group,
years,
summers,
winters,
• a distinct period of history.
• "an age of technological growth"
age
verb
• grow old or older.
• "the tiredness we feel as we age"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.
-age
suffix
• forming nouns denoting an action.
• "leverage"
• forming nouns denoting denoting an aggregate or number of.
• "mileage"
• forming nouns denoting a place or abode.
• "vicarage"
Origin:
from Old French, based on Latin -aticum, neuter form of the adjectival ending -aticus .
