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ages

/ˈeɪ.dʒɪz/ · noun

Meaning

  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.
  6. A great period in the history of the Earth.
  7. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
  8. To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
  9. To categorize by age.
  10. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
  11. A long time.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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