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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   age

   • IPA[āj]

   美式

   • n.
     the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed；a particular stage in someone's life
   • v.
     grow old or older, especially visibly and obviously so；cause to grow, feel, or appear older

   • noun: age, plural noun: ages

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed he died from a heart attack at the age of 51 he must be nearly 40 years of age 同義詞 number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life, stage of life, ... 更多generation, age group, peer group, years, summers, winters
   • ▪ a particular stage in someone's life children of primary school age
   • ▪ the latter part of life or existence; old age with age this gland can become sluggish 同義詞 elderliness, old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, ... 更多dotage, senility, one's advancing/advanced years, one's declining years, the winter/autumn of one's life, formalsenescence, archaiceld, rarecaducity反義詞 youth, childhood
   • 2. a distinct period of history an age of technological growth a child of the television age 同義詞 era, epoch, period, time, eon, ... 更多span
   • ▪ a division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy.
   • ▪ archaic a lifetime taken as a measure of time; a generation Nestor is said to have lived three ages when he was ninety years old
   • ▪ British informal a very long time I haven't seen her for ages it would take an age to tell her everything 同義詞 a long time, a lifetime, an eternity, seemingly forever, hours, ... 更多days, months, years, eons, hours/days/months on end, ages and ages, a month of Sundays, informalyonks, donkey's years, informal, dateda coon's age

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. grow old or older, especially visibly and obviously so the tiredness we feel as we age you haven't aged a lot
   • ▪ cause to grow, feel, or appear older he even tried aging the painting with a spoonful of coffee
   • ▪ (especially with reference to an alcoholic drink) mature or allow to mature the wine ages in open vats or casks
   • ▪ determine how old (something) is we didn't have a clue how to age these animals

   片語

   • act one's age
   • come of age
   • of an age
   • through the ages