| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a period of time |
Synonyms: |
aeon, blue moon, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | cycle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era, phase |
Synonyms: |
aeon, age, alternation, chain, circle, circuit, course, eon, isochronism, loop, orbit, period, periodicity, revolution, rhythm, ring, rotation, round, run, sequel, sequence, series, succession, wheel |
| Main Entry: | eon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an age |
Synonyms: |
aeon, ages, time period, years |
| Main Entry: | era |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time period in history |
Synonyms: |
aeon, age, cycle, date, day, days, eon, epoch, generation, stage, term, time |
| Main Entry: | eternity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forever |
Synonyms: |
aeon, afterlife, age, ages, blue moon, dog's age, endless time, endlessness, everlastingness, forever and a day, future, immortality, imperishability, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, kingdom come, other world, perpetuity, time without end, timelessness, wild blue yonder, world without end |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era; age group |
Synonyms: |
aeon, breed, contemporaries, crop, day, days, eon, epoch, peers, period, rank, span, step, time, times |
| Main Entry: | period |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of time |
Synonyms: |
aeon, age, course, cycle, date, days, duration, epoch, era, generation, interval, measure, season, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, term, time, while, years |
| Main Entry: | donkey's years |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very long time |
Synonyms: |
aeon, all one's born days, coon's age, eternity, forever and a day, long time, month of Sundays, right smart spell, time immemorial, time out of mind, years on end |
| Main Entry: | sempiternity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eternity |
Synonyms: |
aeon, afterlife, age, ages, blue moon, dog's age, endless time, endlessness, eternality, eternalness, everlastingness, forever and a day, future, immortality, imperishability, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, kingdom come, other world, perpetuity, time without end, timelessness, wild blue yonder, world without end |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
gray, gray, time, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
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