age (original) (raw)
age noun (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
about someone's age I'd guess she's about my age (= she is about as old as I am).
years of age She was 74 years of age when she wrote her first novel.
at the age of He left home at the age of 16.
His girlfriend's twice his age (= twice as old as he is).
age noun (LONG TIME)
See also
Grammar
Idiom
Phrasal verb
-age suffix (ACTION)
-age suffix (STATE)
-age suffix (PLACE)
(Definition of age from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
age | American Dictionary
age noun (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
age noun (PERIOD)
age verb [I/T] (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
[ I ] She’s aged a lot since the last time we met.
Note:
- usually said about a person
(Definition of age from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of age
age
A group of 16 children were studied between 11 and 79 months of age.
The majority (76%) of the social workers were female, whose average age was 43 years.
The corresponding age difference for women was 2-3 years.
The children were aged 4;10 at the beginning of the study.
Two-thirds were aged 40-49 years, 30 per cent were 50-59 years, and only 5 per cent aged 60 years or more.
The average age of the two groups was not significantly different.
Correction was done between 3 months and 7 years of age.
Their age varied between 4 days and 3 years.
The age of the supracrustal rocks is unknown.
They were adults from twenty-one to thirty-five years of age.
The age at onset was between 44 and 73 years.
There was a difference of about a year in average age.
The majority of women (55-4 %) were aged 17-25 years.
By 4 years of age the weight distribution of these children was relatively poor.
Deductions about orientation and orientation response of infants aged 1^% to years.
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Collocations with age
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The propensity to move declines steadily with advanced age.
There were no statistically significant interactions between study group and age category or rank.
The age cohort-wise regressions offer some further interesting insights.
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