| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become older |
Synonyms: |
decline, deteriorate, develop, get along, grow, grow feeble, grow old, grow up, mature, mellow, push, put mileage on, ripen, wane |
| 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: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cultivate, prosper |
Synonyms: |
advance, age, enroot, establish, evolve, expand, flourish, foster, grow, grow up, maturate, mature, mellow, progress, promote, ripen, thrive |
Antonyms: |
halt, repress |
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
Synonyms: |
advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
| Main Entry: | mellow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ripen, mature |
Synonyms: |
age, arrive, develop, grow, grow up, improve, maturate, milden, mollify, perfect, ripe, season, settle down, soften, sweeten |
| Main Entry: | maturing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ripening |
Synonyms: |
advancing, aging, blossoming, consummating, developing, evolving, growing, growing up, mellowing, perfecting, preparing, sprouting, sweetening |
Antonyms: |
declining, dying, fading |
| Main Entry: | ripen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mature |
Synonyms: |
age, come of age, grow up, mellow |
| Main Entry: | maturate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mature |
Synonyms: |
advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom*, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime*, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
| 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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| Concept: | Age. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
age; oldness; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life., seniority, eldership; elders (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture., [Science of old age] geriatrics, nostology.
-verbs
be aged; grow old, get old; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.
-adjectives
aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting (imbecile); like the last of pea time., older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro [Japanese]., turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal (ancient); gerontic.
-adverbs
pro tem
-phrases
"give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes ["Old men are boys again" (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux ["Few know how to be old" (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. "Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors" (Latin)]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks
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Antonyms: |
youth, adolescence |
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