Library / English Dictionary

AGE GROUP

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of people having approximately the same age

Synonyms:

age bracket; age group; cohort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("age group" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "age group"):

aged; elderly (people who are old collectively)

young; youth (young people collectively)

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 Context examples: 

In the adult age group the complete remission rate is 60-85%.

(B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)