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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
- "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
Synonyms for ages
- adolescence
- adulthood
- aeon
- blue moon
- boyhood
- century
- childhood
- date
- day
- decline
- deteriorate
- develop
- dotage
- duration
- elderliness
- epoch
- era
- generation
- get along
- girlhood
- grow
- grow feeble
- grow old
- grow up
- infancy
- interim
- interval
- life
- lifetime
- majority
- mature
- maturity
- mellow
- middle age
- milestone
- millennium
- old age
- push
- put mileage on
- ripen
- senility
- seniority
- span
- wane
- wear and tear
- youth
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