Age Children I Eɪdʒ Lived People Extra Examples

• you're the same age as my brother.
• when i was your age i was already married.
• ways of calculating the age of the earth
• to reach retirement age

age

1. the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
• SEE ALSO legal age
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/legal-age
• You're the same age as my brother.
• When I was your age I was already married.
• ways of calculating the age of the earth
• to reach retirement age
• He left school at the age of 18.
• He started playing the piano at an early age.
• Children can start school from the age of four.
• children between the ages of 5 and 10
• The children range in age from 5 to 10.
• The children's ages range from 5 to 10.
• Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.
• The film is unsuitable for children below 12 years of age.
• Young people of all ages go there to meet.
• She needs more friends of her own age.
• All ages admitted.
• He was tall for his age (= taller than you would expect, considering his age).
• She was beginning to feel her age (= feel that she was getting old).
• The show appeals to all age ranges.
• There’s a big age gap between them (= a big difference in their ages).

Extra Examples

• At your age I had already started work.
• He could read by the age of four.
• He was still active even at the advanced age of 87.
• It is illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18.
• She lived to the age of 75.
• The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 years.
• Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age.
• When you get to my age you get a different perspective on life.
• children between the ages of five and eleven
2. a very long time
• It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
• I waited for ages.
• Carlos left ages ago.
• It's been an age since we've seen them.

Extra Examples

• I've been sitting here for absolutely ages.
• It took an age for us all to get on the boat.
3. a particular period of a person’s life
• SEE ALSO middle age
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/middle-age
• in middle/old age
• 15 is an awkward age.

Extra Examples

• She dreaded old age.
• a pleasant woman in early middle age
• children of school age
4. a particular period of history
• SEE ALSO Bronze Age
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-bronze-age
• the nuclear age
• We live in an age of globalization.
• a study of fashion through the ages

Extra Examples

• He lived during the Elizabethan age.
• In an age when few women became politicians, her career was unusual.
• This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age.
• an exhibition of Islamic art through the ages
• the age of wireless communication
5. the state of being old
• The jacket was showing signs of age.
• White hair is a sign of great age.
• Wine improves with age.
• the wisdom that comes with age
6. a length of time that is a division of an epoch
7. to behave in a way that is suitable for somebody of your age and not as though you were much younger
• Isn’t it time you started acting your age?
8. when a person comes of age, they reach the age when they have an adult’s legal rights and responsibilities
• SEE ALSO coming of age
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/coming-of-age
• The money will go to the children when they come of age.
9. if something comes of age, it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it
• It was the year that concern for the environment really came of age.
10. to realize that you are getting old, especially compared with people you are with who are younger than you
11. a great age
• She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70.
12. now, in the modern world
• Slavery continues to exist, even in this day and age.
• Why dress so formally in this day and age?
13. to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older
• She doesn’t look her age; I thought she was ten years younger.
14. used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’
• He was a man of advanced years.
• Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!
15. if you talk about a person being of a certain age, you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old
• The show appeals to an audience of a certain age.
16. an age that is considered to be very old
• He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
17. not legally old enough to do a particular thing
• SEE ALSO underage
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/underage
• It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.