age
noun/eɪdʒ/
Слово англійською: age
Переклад age українською: вік, доба́, вік (епо́ха), старі́ти, вікова́ межа́, віко́ва гру́па, повнолі́тній, ста́рість (стари́й вік), неповнолі́тній, малолі́тній
Детальний опис
- [countable, uncountable] the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
- You're the same age as my brother.
- ways of calculating the age of the earth
- to reach retirement age
- at the age of… He left school at the age of 18.
- He started playing the piano at an early age.
- At your age I had already started work.
- from the age of… Children can start school from the age of four.
- between the ages of… children between the ages of 5 and 10
- The children range in age from 5 to 10.
- The children's ages range from 5 to 10.
- under/over the age of… Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.
- The film is unsuitable for children below 12 years of age.
- Young people of all ages go there to meet.
- She needs more friends of her own age.
- All ages admitted.
- for your age He was tall for his age (= taller than you would expect, considering his age).
- She was beginning to feel her age (= feel that she was getting old).
- The show appeals to all age ranges.
- There’s a big age gap between them (= a big difference in their ages).
Wordfinder- adolescent
- age
- elderly
- generation
- infant
- juvenile
- middle-aged
- minor
- teenage
- young
- ages[plural](also an age [singular])(informal, especially British English) a very long time
- It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
- for ages I waited for ages.
- ages ago Carlos left ages ago.
- It's been an age since we've seen them.
- [uncountable, countable] a particular period of a person’s life
- in middle/old age
- 15 is an awkward age.
Collocations The ages of lifeThe ages of lifeChildhood/youthsee also middle age, old age, school age, third age- be born and raised/bred in Oxford; into a wealthy/middle-class family
- have a happy/an unhappy/a tough childhood
- grow up in a musical family/in an orphanage/on a farm
- be/grow up an only child (= with no brothers or sisters)
- reach/hit/enter/go through adolescence/puberty
- be in your teens/early twenties/mid-twenties/late twenties
- undergo/experience physical/psychological changes
- give in to/succumb to/resist peer pressure
- assert your independence/individuality
- leave school/university/home
- go out to work (at sixteen)
- get/find a job/partner
- be/get engaged/married
- have/get a wife/husband/mortgage/steady job
- settle down and have kids/children/a family
- begin/start/launch/build a career (in politics/science/the music industry)
- prove (to be)/represent/mark/reach a turning point in your life/career
- reach/be well into/settle into middle age
- have/suffer/go through a midlife crisis
- take/consider early retirement
- approach/announce/enjoy your retirement
- have/see/spend time with your grandchildren
- take up/pursue/develop a hobby
- get/receive/draw/collect/live on a pension
- approach/save for/die from old age
- live to a ripe old age
- reach the grand old age of 102/23 (often ironic)
- be/become/be getting/be going senile (often ironic)
- die (peacefully)/pass away in your sleep/after a brief illness
- [countable] a particular period of history
- the nuclear age
- We live in an age of globalization.
- through the ages a study of fashion through the ages
- [uncountable] the state of being old
- The jacket was showing signs of age.
- White hair is a sign of great age.
- with age Wine improves with age.
- the wisdom that comes with age
- [countable] (geology) a length of time that is a division of an epoch
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.
Idioms
be/act your age
- to behave in a way that is suitable for somebody of your age and not as though you were much younger
- Isn’t it time you started acting your age?
come of age
- when a person comes of age, they reach the age when they have an adult’s legal rights and responsibilities
- The money will go to the children when they come of age.
- if something comes of age, it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it
- It was the year that concern for the environment really came of age.
feel your age
- to realize that you are getting old, especially compared with people you are with who are younger than you
a/the grand old age (of…)
- a great age
- She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70.
in this day and age
- now, in the modern world
- Slavery continues to exist, even in this day and age.
- Why dress so formally in this day and age?
look your age
- to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older
- She doesn’t look her age; I thought she was ten years younger.
of advanced years | somebody’s advanced age
- used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’
- He was a man of advanced years.
- (humorous) Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!
of a certain age
- if you talk about a person being of a certain age, you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old
- The show appeals to an audience of a certain age.
a/the ripe old age (of…)
- an age that is considered to be very old
- He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
under age
- not legally old enough to do a particular thing
- It is illegal to sell vapes to children who are under age.