of age

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Adj.

of age - having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable); "aged ten"; "ten years of age"

old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

Translations

سِن الرُّشْد القَانُونِي

volljährig volljährig werden

majeur

nagykorú

bli myndig

成年

age

(eidʒ) noun

1. the amount of time during which a person or thing has existed. He went to school at the age of six (years); What age is she?

2. (often with capital) a particular period of time. This machine was the wonder of the age; the Middle Ages.

3. the quality of being old. This wine will improve with age; With the wisdom of age he regretted the mistakes he had made in his youth.

4. (usually in plural) a very long time. We've been waiting (for) ages for a bus.

verb – present participle ˈag(e)ing –

to (cause to) grow old or look old. He has aged a lot since I last saw him; His troubles have aged him.

aged adjective

1. (ˈeidʒid) old. an aged man.

2. (eidʒd) of the age of. a child aged five.

ˈageless adjective

never growing old or never looking older. ageless beauty.

ˈage-old adjective

done, known etc for a very long time. an age-old custom.

the aged (ˈeidʒid)

old people. care for the aged.

(come) of age

(to become) old enough to be considered legally an adult (eg in Britain aged eighteen or over).

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The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

For let me tell you, Socrates, that when a man thinks himself to be near death, fears and cares enter into his mind which he never had before; the tales of a world below and the punishment which is exacted there of deeds done here were once a laughing matter to him, but now he is tormented with the thought that they may be true: either from the weakness of age, or because he is now drawing nearer to that other place, he has a clearer view of these things; suspicions and alarms crowd thickly upon him, and he begins to reflect and consider what wrongs he has done to others.

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For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, abuseth them.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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Indeed it is as much the business of the legislator as anything else, to banish every indecent expression out of the state: for from a permission to speak whatever is shameful, very quickly arises the doing it, and this particularly with young people: for which reason let them never speak nor hear any such thing: but if it appears that any freeman has done or said anything that is forbidden before he is of age to be thought fit to partake of the common meals, let him be punished by disgrace and stripes; but if a person above that age does so, let him be treated as you would a slave, on account of his being infamous.

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He came of rich people down in Somersetshire, who had nursed this combination of qualities until they made the discovery that it was just of age and a blockhead.

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He wore the old Puritan dress, a dark cloak and a steeplecrowned hat, in the fashion of at least fifty years before, with a heavy sword upon his thigh, but a staff in his hand to assist the tremulous gait of age.

As he drew near the advancing soldiers, and as the roll of their drum came full upon his ears, the old man raised himself to a loftier mien, while the decrepitude of age seemed to fall from his shoulders, leaving him in gray but unbroken dignity.

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She gropes her way, in the dark- ness of age, for a drink of water.

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Chaucer was now thirty years of age, and his practical sagacity and knowledge of men had been recognized; for from this time on he held important public positions.

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Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.

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Except that I still had some trouble with my wound, behold me now to all appearance one of the most enviable of existing mortals; promoted to the position of a wealthy gentleman; possessor of a house in London and of a country-seat in Perthshire; and, nevertheless, at twenty-three years of age, one of the most miserable men living!