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Roget-categorie 128

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#128. Age

zelfstandig naamwoord

ageoldness etc. adj. — old age, advanced age, golden yearssenility, senescenceyears, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuationsecond childhood, second childishnessdotagevale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and tengreen old age, ripe agelongevitytime of life.
seniority, eldershipelders etc. (veteran) 130firstlingdoyen, fatherprimogeniture.
[Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology.

werkwoord

be aged etc. adj. — grow old, get old etc. adj. — agedecline, wane, doddersenesce.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

agedold etc. 124elderly, geriatric, senilematronly, anilein yearsripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's primegray, gray-headedhoar, hoaryvenerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuatedadvanced in life, advanced in yearsstricken in yearswrinkled, marked withthe crow's foothaving one foot in the gravedoting etc. (imbecile) 499like the last of pea time.
older, elder, eldestseniorfirstborn.
turned of, years oldof a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselahancestral, patriarchal, etc. (ancient) 124gerontic.

uitdrukking

give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes [Lat.]peu de gens savent elre vieux [Fr.]plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Lat.] [Pliny the Younger]; old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; slow-consuming age" [Gray]; the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, 31]; the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefullyto vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].

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