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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : eyj
Phonetic Transcription : eɪdʒ



Definition of ages

Origin :
  • "to grow old," late 14c., from age (n.). Meaning "to make old" is early 15c. Related: Aged; aging.
  • noun period of animate existence
  • noun a period of time
  • verb become older
Example sentences :
  • "Grandma Loekermann did it at the convent, ages ago," she told him.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • We have exacted from him what is at variance with the fixed Chinese policy of ages.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Both sexes, and all ages, are busy at all times in the mysteries of the gaming-table.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • She had much to learn in this direction yet—as who has not who is ages in advance of life?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • There should be a series of Coming of Ages for every individual.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • This valley, in past ages, when the world was new, had probably been the bed of a lake.
  • Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Why the devil did that thing hang there for ages, and then come down on me today?
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • The ages were all right, so they were delighted, and accepted.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The student of nature in all the ages has taken the vow of poverty.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Ours was but the common experience of reformers in all ages.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

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