age : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a group of people having approximately the same age
  cohort; age bracket.
  

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• noun people in the same age range
  

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• noun a group of people having approximately the same age
  cohort; age bracket.
  

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• noun regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position
  

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• noun the average age at which particular performances are expected to appear
  

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• the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place.

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• noun the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
  

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• noun from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites
  Devonian period; Devonian.
  

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• noun approximately the last 63 million years
  Cenozoic; Cenozoic era.
  

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• noun last 2 million years
  Quaternary period; Quaternary.
  

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• noun a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
  Enlightenment.
  
  • the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms

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• noun from 230 million to 63 million years ago
  Mesozoic era; Mesozoic.
  

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• adjective satellite belonging to or lasting from times long ago
  antique.
  
  • age-old customs
  • the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness

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• adjective satellite changing (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases
  

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• noun macular degeneration that is age-related
  AMD.
  

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• are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements.

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• of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature.

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• (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

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• noun a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological age
  

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• . (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze.

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• noun (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons
  
• noun (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence
  

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• an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze.

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• (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen.

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• noun age measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existed
  
  • his chronological age was 71 years

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• verb reach a certain age that marks a transition to maturity
  

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• noun the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
  Dark Ages.
  

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• noun a measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age norms
  

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• (Geol.), the age next older than the Carboniferous and later than the Silurian; called also the Age of fishes. The various strata of this age compose the Devonian formation or system, and include the old red sandstone of Great Britain. They contain, besides plants and numerous invertebrates, the bony portions of many large and remarkable fishes of extinct groups. See the Diagram under Geology.

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• noun the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages
  

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• noun a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
  

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• noun the earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture
  Eolithic.
  

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• that period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as, the fabulous age of Greek and Rome.

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• noun the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
  fertilization age; fetal age.
  

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• noun the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
  fertilization age; fetal age.
  

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• . (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone.

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• (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott.

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• noun the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilization
  fertilization age; fetal age.
  

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• noun a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak
  
  • it was the golden age of cinema
• noun any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
  
• noun (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period
  

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• . (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote . Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature.

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• noun any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
  glacial epoch; glacial period.
  
  • the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene

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• (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.

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• noun a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks
  

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• noun (archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons
  
• noun (classical mythology) the last and worst age of the world
  

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• . (a) (Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and bronze ages, and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410. (b) (Archæol.) That stage in the development of any people characterized by the use of iron implements in the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.

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• noun the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
  

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• the age when the law recognizes one's right of independent action; majority; generally the age of twenty-one years.

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• noun the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
  majority.
  

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• noun the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test
  

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• noun middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago
  Epipaleolithic; Mesolithic.
  

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• noun the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
  middle age.
  

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• noun the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
  Dark Ages.
  
• noun the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
  middle age.
  

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Mid"dle-age`

Etymology

Middle + age. Cf. Mediæval.

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1. Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.

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• adjective satellite being roughly between 45 and 65 years old
  

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Mid"dle-aged` adjective

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1. Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old. now considered as 40 to 60 [MW10]!!

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• noun a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old
  

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• the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

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• noun latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
  Neolithic Age; Neolithic.
  

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• noun latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
  Neolithic Age; Neolithic.
  

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• adjective satellite having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
  aged.
  
  • aged ten
  • ten years of age

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• noun a late time of life
  geezerhood; age; eld; years.
  
  • old age is not for sissies
  • he's showing his years
  • age hasn't slowed him down at all
  • a beard white with eld
  • on the brink of geezerhood

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• advanced years; the latter period of life.

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• noun insurance paid to the elderly
  

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• noun a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work
  retirement fund; superannuation; retirement benefit; retirement check; retirement pension.
  

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• noun an old person who receives an old-age pension
  

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• noun second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
  Palaeolithic; Paleolithic.
  

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• (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.

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• noun a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
  pupil; schoolchild.
  

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• . (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8.

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• noun (classical mythology) the second age of the world, characterized by opulence and irreligion; by extension, a period secondary in achievement to a golden age
  

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• (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of the classical period of Latinity, the time of writers of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of the previous golden age, so-called.

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• noun an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age
  SGA infant.
  

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• noun the age beginning with the first space travel; from 1957 to the present
  

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• noun (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements
  

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• a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this.

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• . (Geol.) See under Age, 8.

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Un"der-age` adjective

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1. Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish. Obs.

   I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.

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• noun a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation
  

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• noun the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections
  

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• noun vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk
  piggyback plant; pickaback plant; Tolmiea menziesii.
  

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