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age

The word “age” has 1 syllable: age

It's pronounced as /eɪdʒ/

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In the thesaurus, “age” has 88 synonyms and 54 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for age along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for age

Antonyms for age

Meanings of age

  • noun
    1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
    2. The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
    3. One of the stages of life.
    4. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
    5. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
    6. A great period in the history of the Earth.
    7. A period of one hundred years; a century.
    8. The people who live during a particular period.
    9. A generation.
    10. A long time.
    11. A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
    12. The right 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.
    13. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
    14. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
    15. An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
  • verb
    1. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
    2. To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
    3. To categorize by age.
    4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Example Sentences

  • She looks younger than her actual age.
  • The age of the building is over a hundred years.
  • People often gain wisdom with age.
  • He started playing the piano at a very young age.
  • The museum exhibits artifacts from the Bronze age.

On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to age, such as: adolescence, adulthood, advance, aeon, afterlife, afternoon, agedness.

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