age

noun
/eɪd͡ʒ/

The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years

Example

“"What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)”

Other meanings

The state of being old; the latter part of life.
Any particular stage of life.

Example sentences

“Information spreads rapidly in the digital age.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“I started hearing voices at the age of twenty-one.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
“Most trans people have known they were trans from a young age.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "aetas" (aetātem).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “age” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.