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[1] having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
[2] pertaining to or characteristic of old age: aged wrinkles.
[3] of the age of: a man aged 40 years.
[4] brought to maturity or mellowness, as wine, cheese, or wood: aged whiskey.
[5] Physical Geography . old; approaching the state of peneplain.
[6] (used with a plural verb ) old people collectively (usually preceded by the ): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
[7] the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
[8] a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
[9] the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
[10] one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
[11] advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.
[12] a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
[13] the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age.
[14] a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn.
[15] a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
[16] the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
[17] Psychology . the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
[18] Geology . a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age. a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
[19] any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
[20] Cards . Poker . the first player at the dealer's left. Compare edge(def 10a) . eldest hand.
[21] to grow old: He is aging rapidly.
[22] to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood: a heavy port that ages slowly.
[23] to make old; cause to grow or seem old: Fear aged him overnight.
[24] to bring to maturity or a state fit for use: to age wine.
[25] to store (a permanent magnet, a capacitor, or other similar device) so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
[26] to expose (a dye or dyed cloth) to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
[27] to stabilize the electrical properties of (a device) by passing current through it.
[28] advanced in years; old (as collective noun; preceded by the ) the aged
[29] of, connected with, or characteristic of old age
[30] (eɪdʒd ) (postpositive) having the age of a woman aged twenty
[31] geography (not in technical use) having reached an advanced stage of erosion
[32] the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live the age of a tree ; what age was he when he died? ; the age of a horse is up to thirty years
[33] the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc the age of this table is 200 years
[34] a period or state of human life he should know better at his age ; she had got beyond the giggly age (as modifier ) age group
[35] the latter part of life
[36] a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era (capital when part of a name ) the Middle Ages ; the Space Age
[37] generation the Edwardian age
[38] geology palaeontol a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics the age of reptiles the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch
[39] myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages
[40] (often plural) informal a relatively long time she was an age washing her hair ; I've been waiting ages
[41] psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age See also achievement age, mental age
[42] age before beauty (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people
[43] of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)
[44] to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged
[45] to begin to seem older to have aged a lot in the past year
[46] brewing to mature or cause to mature

Words related to Aged

elderly, antique, gray, antediluvian, ancient, shot, worn, antiquated, oldie, moth-eaten, rusty, timeworn, venerable, age-old, creaky, senescent

Words nearby Aged

age of innocence, the, age of reason, age spots, age-old, age-proof, aged, agee, agee, james, ageing, ageism, agelaus

Origin of Aged

1225–75; (noun) Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French aage, eage, equivalent to aé (< Latin aetātem accusative of ae(vi)tās age; aev(um ) time, lifetime + -itās -ity) + -age -age; (v.) Middle English agen, derivative of the noun

Other words from Aged

a·ged·ly , adverb
a·ged·ness , noun
pre·aged , adjective
un·aged , adjective
well-aged , adjective
in·ter·age , adjective
pre·age , verb, pre·aged, pre·ag·ing.
sub·age , noun
un·ag·ing , adjective

Word origin for Aged

C13: via Old French from Vulgar Latin aetatīcum (unattested), from Latin aetās, ultimately from aevum lifetime; compare aeon

Synonyms for Aged

elderly, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, gray, oldie, shot, worn, age-old, been around, creaky, getting on, moth-eaten, over the hill, passé, rusty, senescent, senior citizen, timeworn, venerable, worse for wear