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What does the word age mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To make, grow, or seem to grow old.

Part of speech: suffix

Forming collective nouns; as, baggage, leafage.

Part of speech: suffix

Forming nouns of condition, office, service, or other relation or connection; as, drayage, pilgrimage.

Part of speech: noun

Period of life or existence; length of life already passed.

Part of speech: noun

The decline of life; the state of being old.

Part of speech: noun

Legal majority; maturity.

Part of speech: noun

An era; generation; century.

Usage examples for age

He was glad his subject was to be a woman- one near his own age. – Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman by F. Hopkinson Smith
" That," he said, " is how I came to be afraid of Old Age." – Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman

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