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{ "term": "age", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed", "sensetop": "at the age of…from the age of…between the ages of…under/over the age of…for your age", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "You're **the same age as** my brother." }, { "text": "ways of calculating the age of the earth" }, { "text": "to reach **retirement age**" }, { "text": "He left school at the age of 18.", "contextForm": "at the age of…" }, { "text": "He started playing the piano **at an early age**." }, { "text": "**At your age** I had already started work." }, { "text": "Children can start school from the age of four.", "contextForm": "from the age of…" }, { "text": "children between the ages of 5 and 10", "contextForm": "between the ages of…" }, { "text": "The children **range in age** from 5 to 10." }, { "text": "The children's ages range from 5 to 10." }, { "text": "Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.", "contextForm": "under/over the age of…" }, { "text": "The film is unsuitable for children below 12 **years of age**." }, { "text": "Young people **of all ages** go there to meet." }, { "text": "She needs more friends of her own age." }, { "text": "All ages admitted." }, { "text": "He was tall **for his age** *(= taller than you would expect, considering his age)*.", "contextForm": "for your age" }, { "text": "She was beginning to **feel her age** *(= feel that she was getting old)*." }, { "text": "The show appeals to all **age ranges**." }, { "text": "There’s a big **age gap** between them *(= a big difference in their ages)*." }, { "text": "He could read by the age of four." }, { "text": "He was still cycling even at the advanced age of 87." }, { "text": "It is illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18." }, { "text": "She lived to the age of 75." }, { "text": "The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 years." }, { "text": "Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age." }, { "text": "When you get to my age you get a different perspective on life." }, { "text": "children between the ages of five and eleven" } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["early", "tender", "young"], "verb + age": ["attain", "get to", "live to"], "age + noun": ["group", "range", "limit"], "preposition": ["at a/the age", "between the ages", "by the age"], "phrases": ["the age of consent", "somebody’s own age", "years of age"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "a very long time", "sensetop": "for agesages ago", "labels": "(informal, especially British English)", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "It'll probably **take ages** to find a parking space." }, { "text": "I waited for ages.", "contextForm": "for ages" }, { "text": "Carlos left ages ago.", "contextForm": "ages ago" }, { "text": "It's been an age since we've seen them." }, { "text": "I've been sitting here for absolutely ages." }, { "text": "It took an age for us all to get on the boat." } ], "collocations": { "verb + ages/an age": ["spend", "take"], "phrases": ["absolutely ages", "ages ago", "for ages"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a particular period of a person’s life", "labels": "(often ironic)(often ironic)", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "in **middle/old age**" }, { "text": "15 is an awkward age." }, { "text": "She dreaded old age." }, { "text": "a woman in early middle age" }, { "text": "children of school age" } ], "topics": ["Time"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["early", "tender", "young"], "verb + age": ["attain", "get to", "live to"], "age + noun": ["group", "range", "limit"], "preposition": ["at a/the age", "between the ages", "by the age"], "phrases": ["the age of consent", "somebody’s own age", "years of age"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "a particular period of history", "sensetop": "through the ages", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the nuclear age" }, { "text": "We live in an age of globalization." }, { "text": "a study of fashion through the ages", "contextForm": "through the ages" }, { "text": "He lived during the Elizabethan age." }, { "text": "In an age when few women became politicians, her career was unusual." }, { "text": "This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age." }, { "text": "an exhibition of Islamic art through the ages" }, { "text": "the age of wireless communication" } ], "topics": ["Time", "History"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["another", "bygone", "different"], "preposition": ["during the… age", "in a/the age", "through the ages"], "phrases": ["in this day and age"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "the state of being old", "sensetop": "with age", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The jacket was showing signs of age." }, { "text": "White hair is a sign of great age." }, { "text": "Wine improves with age.", "contextForm": "with age" }, { "text": "the wisdom that comes with age" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "a length of time that is a division of an epoch", "labels": "(geology)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to behave in a way that is suitable for somebody of your age and not as though you were much younger", "examples": [ { "text": "Isn’t it time you started acting your age?" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "when a person comes of age, they reach the age when they have an adult’s legal rights and responsibilities", "examples": [ { "text": "The money will go to the children when they come of age." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "if something comes of age, it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it", "examples": [ { "text": "It was the year that concern for the environment really came of age." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to realize that you are getting old, especially compared with people you are with who are younger than you", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a great age", "examples": [ { "text": "She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "now, in the modern world", "examples": [ { "text": "Slavery continues to exist, even in this day and age." }, { "text": "Why dress so formally in this day and age?" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older", "examples": [ { "text": "She doesn’t look her age; I thought she was ten years younger." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’", "labels": "(humorous)", "examples": [ { "text": "He was a man of advanced years." }, { "text": "Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "if you talk about a person being of a certain age, you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old", "examples": [ { "text": "The show appeals to an audience of a certain age." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "an age that is considered to be very old", "examples": [ { "text": "He lived to the ripe old age of 91." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "not legally old enough to do a particular thing", "examples": [ { "text": "It is illegal to sell vapes to children who are under age." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/eɪdʒ/", "audio": "ag/age/age__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/eɪdʒ/", "audio": "ag/age/age__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’." }