noun
1. a late time of life (Freq. 19)
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old age is not for sissies
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he's showing his years
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age hasn't slowed him down at all
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a beard white with eld
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on the brink of geezerhood
• Syn: ↑old age, ↑age, ↑eld, ↑geezerhood
• Hypernyms: ↑time of life
• Hyponyms: ↑dotage, ↑second childhood, ↑senility
• Part Meronyms:
↑sixties, ↑mid-sixties, ↑seventies, ↑mid-seventies, ↑eighties, ↑mid-eighties, ↑nineties, ↑mid-nineties
2. a prolonged period of time (Freq. 6)
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we've known each other for ages
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I haven't been there for years and years
• Hypernyms: ↑time period, ↑period of time, ↑period
• Hyponyms: ↑month of Sundays, ↑eon, ↑aeon, ↑blue moon, ↑year dot
3. the time during which someone's life continues
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the monarch's last days
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in his final years
• Syn: ↑days
• Hypernyms: ↑life
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plural of year
Useful english dictionary. 2012.