Antonyms for old age
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of old age
- noun period of being elderly
- Old age and decay, bad enough in themselves, we intensify by our habits of mind.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- As for Reilly, we have been in harbour together, in our old age, and I may speak of him again.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Sometimes even now, in my old age, I feel that I do not wholly comprehend it.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- I have lived to see two things in my old age that never did I expect to behold.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He died of old age, about a month ago, and sadly shall I miss him.'
- Extract from : « Georgie's Present » by Miss Brightwell
- When Tom Pembroke knew it best, its old age and decay had well set in.
- Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
- And therefore for this reason it is that old age dotes; and that it does so, it is beholding to me.
- Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
- Claret for youth, say I, sack for maturity, and strong waters in old age.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- In his old age he regretted that he had not completed his task.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
Synonyms for old age
- advancing years
- age
- agedness
- autumn of life
- caducity
- debility
- declining years
- decrepitude
- dotage
- elderliness
- evening of life
- feebleness
- geriatrics
- golden age
- golden years
- infirmity
- latter part of animate life
- longevity
- oldness
- retirement age
- second childhood
- senectitude
- senescence
- senility
- seniority
- winter of life
- years
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