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OLD AGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A late time of life
Example:
on the brink of geezerhood
Synonyms:
age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("old age" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "old age"):
mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)
mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)
eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)
mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old age"):
dotage; second childhood; senility (mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations)
Context examples:
A brain disorder that usually starts in late middle age or old age and gets worse over time.
(Alzheimer dementia, NCI Dictionary)
Scarring and atrophy of the renal cortex that occurs in hypertensive patients and in old age.
(Arterionephrosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)
"He might have lived to a ripe old age if he'd stayed at home," Henry agreed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A new study demonstrates that patterns of brain activity can predict in advance whether a young mouse will develop Alzheimer's-like memory deficits in old age.
(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)
An old man now, but in a ruddy, hearty, strong old age.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
However, old age does not necessarily mean that a planet's atmosphere has been eroded.
(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)
Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the hip joint which usually appears in late middle or old age.
(Hip Osteoarthritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The driving rain, the cursing and screams of pain, the swish of the blows, the yelling of orders and advice, the heavy smell of the damp cloth—every incident of that scene of my early youth comes back to me now in my old age as clearly as if it had been but yesterday.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
