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The correct spelling is age.
How to pronounce age
/eɪd͡ʒ/
nounIPA: /eɪd͡ʒ/
Say it like: Aje
The correct spelling is age. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. For example: "the age of infancy"
Usage Examples
“the age of infancy”
“the age of consent; the age of discretion”
“the golden age; the age of Pericles”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- 2.The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- 3.One of the stages of life.
- 4.The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- 5.A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
verb
- 1.To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- 2.To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- 3.To categorize by age.
- 4.To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
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