aged, cured
(adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (âagedâ is pronounced as one syllable)
aged, ripened
(adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (âagedâ pronounced as one syllable); âmature well-aged cheesesâ
aged, elderly, older, senior
(adjective) advanced in years; (âagedâ is pronounced as two syllables); âaged members of the societyâ; âelderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraperâ; âsenior citizenâ
aged, of age
(adjective) having attained a specific age; (âagedâ is pronounced as one syllable); âaged tenâ; âten years of ageâ
aged
(adjective) at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable); âaged rocksâ
aged, elderly
(noun) people who are old collectively; âspecial arrangements were available for the agedâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aged (comparative more aged or further aged, superlative most aged or furthest aged)
Old.
(mostly, non-US) Having the age of.
Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
• (old): eldern, hoary; see also old
• (having the age of): -year-old
• (undergone effects of time): matured
aged pl (plural only)
Old people, collectively.
aged
simple past tense and past participle of age
• Gade, egad, gade
Source: Wiktionary
A"ged, a.
1. Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
2. Belonging to old age. "Aged cramps." Shak.
3. Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
Age, n. Etym: [OF. aage, eage, F. âge, fr. L. aetas through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr. aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf. Each.]
1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.
2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth
3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. Shak.
4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak.
5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.
Note: In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old.
6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. Abbott.
7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages 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. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.
8. A great period in the history of the Earth.
Note: The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The ArchĂŚan, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. Dana.
9. A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.
10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.
11. A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place.
– Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.
Note: Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled, agelong.
Syn.
– Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.
Age, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aged; p. pr. & vb. n. Aging.]
Definition: To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.
Age, v. t.
Definition: To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 January 2025
(noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
