Usually means: Time elapsed since someone's birth.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. -age, age: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -age, age: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. age: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -age, age: Collins English Dictionary
  5. age: Vocabulary.com
  6. Age, age: Wordnik
  7. -age, age: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -age, age: Wiktionary
  9. -age, age: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -age, age: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. age: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AGE, Ag.E, -age, a.g.e: Dictionary.com
  13. -age, age: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. age: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. AGE, Age (album), Age (disambiguation), Age (geology), Age (song), Age (wine), Age, The Age (newspaper), The Age, The age: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Age: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. age: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. age: Rhymezone
  19. age: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. age: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -age, age: MyWord.info
  22. age: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. age: Free Dictionary
  24. age: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. age: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. age: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. age: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Sushi Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  3. -age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. age: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. age: Legal dictionary
  5. age: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. age: Netlingo
  2. age: Hacking Lexicon
  3. age: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. AGE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  5. age: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AGE: Acronym Finder
  3. AGE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. SPIRITS Terminology (No longer online)
  6. age: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Age: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AGE: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. age: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Karate Terms (No longer online)
  2. Age: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
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.

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