age

Roget category 128

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#128. Age

noun

age — oldness^† etc. adj. — old age, advanced age, golden years — senility, senescence — years, anility^†, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^†, superannuation — second childhood, second childishness — dotage — vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten — green old age, ripe age — longevity — time of life.
seniority, eldership — elders etc. (veteran) 130 — firstling — doyen, father — primogeniture.
[Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology^†.

verb

be aged etc. adj. — grow old, get old etc. adj. — age — decline, wane, dodder — senesce.

adjective

aged — old etc. 124 — elderly, geriatric, senile — matronly, anile^† — in years — ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime — gray, gray-headed — hoar, hoary — venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated — advanced in life, advanced in years — stricken in years — wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot — having one foot in the grave — doting etc. (imbecile) 499 — like the last of pea time.
older, elder, eldest — senior — firstborn.
turned of, years old — of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah — ancestral, patriarchal, etc. (ancient) 124 — gerontic.

phrase

give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes [Lat.] — peu de gens savent elre vieux [Fr.] — plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Lat.] [Pliny the Younger]; old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; slow-consuming age" [Gray]; the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, 31]; the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully — to vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].

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