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| Main Entry: | years |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age; old age |
| Synonyms: | caducity, dotage, generation, lifetime, senility, agedness, elderliness, lifespan, oldness, senescence |
| Antonyms: | youth |
| Main Entry: | old age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being elderly |
| Synonyms: | age, caducity, debility, decrepitude, dotage, feebleness, golden age*, infirmity, longevity, senility, seniority, years, advancing years, agedness, autumn of life, declining years, elderliness, evening of life, geriatrics, golden years, latter part of animate life, oldness, retirement age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, winter of life |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blue moon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long period of time |
| Synonyms: | ages, coon's age, forever and a day, forever and ever, long time, years |
| Main Entry: | period |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of time |
| Synonyms: | age, course, cycle, date, duration, epoch, era, generation, interval, measure, season, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, term, time, while, years, aeon, days |
| 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: | day |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era |
| Synonyms: | age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, period, prime, term, time, years, zenith |
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
| Synonyms: | age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, hour, year |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, expanse, expansion, height, interval, limit, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, quantity, radius, range, reach, realm, season, section, segment, space, span, stretch, stride, term, unit, width, elongation, endlessness, extensiveness, lastingness, lengthiness, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, protractedness, purview, ranginess, remoteness, spaciousness, tallness, year |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, life, life span, lifetime, moment, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, while, chronology, hour, lastingness, many a moon, month, week, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vintage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crop, especially of wine |
| Synonyms: | collection, epoch, era, generation, harvest, origin, grapes, wine, year |
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