Aged

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being of advanced age; old.
  • adj. Characteristic of old age.
  • adj. Having reached the age of: aged three.
  • adj. Brought to a desired ripeness or maturity: aged cheese.
  • adj. Geology Approaching the base level of erosion.
  • n. Elderly people considered as a group. Used with the.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Old.
  • adj. Undergone the effects of time, improving as a result.
  • n. Old people, collectively.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of age.
  • preposition. Having the age of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being
  • adj. Belonging to old age.
  • adj. Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Old; having lived or existed long; having reached an advanced period of life: as, an aged man; an aged oak.
  • Of the age of: as, a man aged forty years.
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of old age.
  • Synonyms Aged, Elderly, Old, Ancient. Old is the general word for being near to the natural end, or having nearly reached the usual period, of life: as, a cat is old at twelve years. Elderly is rather old, beginning to be old. Aged is very old. Ancient is so old as to seem to belong to a past age. (See other comparisons under ancient.)
  • In geology, approaching peneplanation: said of the topography of a greatly denuded region.
  • Of a horse, arrived at the age when the ‘pit’ or ‘mark’ on the front teeth has been obliterated by the gradual wearing away of the crown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
  • adj. of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
  • adj. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
  • adj. having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
  • n. people who are old collectively
  • adj. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
  • Equivalent
    worn    mature    ripe    old    preserved   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cohort    age bracket    age group   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    old    -ol   
    Verb Stem
    age   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    assuaged    caged    disengaged    engaged    enraged    gauged    paged    raged    rampaged    restaged