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▸ noun: (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.
▸ noun: (countable) Any particular stage of life.
▸ noun: (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
▸ noun: (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
▸ noun: The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
▸ noun: (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
▸ noun: (countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
▸ noun: (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
▸ noun: (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
▸ noun: (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
▸ noun: (countable, uncommon, possibly dated) A generation.
▸ noun: (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
▸ noun: (countable) lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
▸ noun: (countable, poker) The entitlement 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.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a statement, prediction, etc.) To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
▸ verb: To allow to mature.
▸ verb: To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
▸ verb: (transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
▸ verb: (transitive) To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
▸ verb: (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
▸ noun: (biochemistry) Initialism of advanced glycation end-product.
▸ noun: (biochemistry) Initialism of agarose gel electrophoresis.
▸ noun: (organic chemistry) Initialism of allyl glycidyl ether.
▸ noun: (medicine, underwater diving) Initialism of arterial gas embolism.
Similar:
years,
old age,
long time,
mature,
maturate,
get on,
adulthood,
puberty,
adolescence,
adolescent,
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infancy,
toddlerhood,
childhood,
adolescence,
young adulthood,
middle age,
old age,
elderly,
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