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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology

From Middle English age, borrowed from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?tem, accusative form of aet?s, from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyu- (“vital force”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

1. (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. (countable) One of the stages of life.

4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

5. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
6. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.

7. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
8. (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
9. (countable) A generation.

10. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.

12. (countable, geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
13. (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
14. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

15. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

16. (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

Synonyms

• (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime
• (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld
• (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era
• (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred
• (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
• (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.

4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Synonyms

• (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
• (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Derived terms

• age up

Translations

See also

• age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Appendix:Age by decade

Further reading

• age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• age in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akan?, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?é?eti, which is also the source of Latin ag?, Ancient Greek ??? (ág?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???/, [?æ?j?], [?æ?æ]
• Homophone: ae

Verb

age (past tense agede, past participle aget)

1. (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
2. (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport

Inflection

Further reading

• “age” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of haie, ultimately from Latin haga, borrowed from Frankish *haggju. More at English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

age m (plural ages)

1. beam (central bar of a plough)
2. shaft

Further reading

• “age” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Alternative forms

• aige

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /????/

Preposition

age

1. Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
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Japanese

Romanization

age

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?aqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).

Adjective

age

1. rotten

Related terms

• b-?ge-ja?
• d??geja?

Latin

Etymology

Imperative form of ag?

Interjection

age

1. well now, well then, come now (transition)
2. very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)

Verb

age

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ag?

Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi.

Noun

age

1. Alternative form of awe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?s.

Alternative forms

• aage, ayge (both rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?(?)/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. The age of someone (or rarely, something); the amount of time which someone has existed for.
2. The correct or traditional age for doing something (especially the age of maturity)
3. The state of being old, elderly, or aged; senescence or old age.
4. The life of something or someone; the length of time where a person or thing exists.
5. A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
6. Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
7. (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is of a given or certain age.

Related terms

• agen

Descendants

• English: age
• Scots: age

References

• “??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?g

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ?age, Old Saxon ?ga and Old Dutch ?ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??e/

Noun

?ge n

1. (anatomy) eye

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: uug

  Goesharde: uug, uuch

  Halligen: uuch

  Heligoland: Oog

  Sylt: Oog

• Saterland Frisian: Ooge
• West Frisian: each

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

age

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of agir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of agir

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ed?/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. age

Verb

age (third-person singular present ages, present participle agin, past aged, past participle aged)

1. to age

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Alternative forms

• bownd (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.

Verb

bound

1. simple past tense and past participle of bind

   I bound the splint to my leg.

   I had bound the splint with duct tape.

Adjective

bound (not comparable)

1. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).

2. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
3. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
4. (dated) Constipated; costive.
5. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
6. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.

Antonyms

• (logic: constrained by a quantifier): free

Hyponyms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

Adjective

bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)

1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
2. Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

   Which way are you bound?

   Is that message bound for me?
3. (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

Derived terms

Related terms

• bound to
• I'll be bound

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

   I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.

   Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.

2. (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
2. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. A sizeable jump, great leap.

   The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.

2. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
3. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.

   the bound of a ball

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Derived terms

• by leaps and bounds

Translations

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.

   The rabbit bounded down the lane.

2. (transitive) To cause to leap.

   to bound a horse

   • , Act V, Scene II, page 93:

     […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Hor?e for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.

3. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.

   a rubber ball bounds on the floor

4. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

   to bound a ball on the floor

Derived terms

• rebound

Translations

Anagrams

• Dubon

Middle English

Noun

bound

1. Alternative form of band