Age
Nouns
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age
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oldness etc. adj.
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old age, advanced age, golden years
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senility, senescence
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years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation
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second childhood, second childishness
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dotage
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vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]
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threescore years and ten
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green old age, ripe age
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longevity
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time of life. seniority, eldership
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elders etc. (veteran) Veteran
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firstling
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doyen, father
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primogeniture. [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology.
Verbs
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be aged etc. adj.
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grow old, get old etc. adj.
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age
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decline, wane, dodder
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senesce.
Adjectives
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aged
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old etc. Oldness
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elderly, geriatric, senile
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matronly, anile
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in years
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ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime
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gray, gray-headed
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hoar, hoary
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venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated
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advanced in life, advanced in years
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stricken in years
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wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot
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having one foot in the grave
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doting etc. (imbecile) Imbecility. Folly
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like the last of pea time. older, elder, eldest
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senior
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firstborn. turned of, years old
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of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah
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ancestral, patriarchal, c. (ancient) Oldness
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gerontic.
Phrases
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give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]
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old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]
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slow-consuming age" [Gray]
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the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, Greatness]
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the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]
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to grow old gracefully
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to vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].