“age of”

The following 10 entries include the term age of.

age of consent

noun phrase

: the age at which one is legally competent to give consent especially to marriage or to sexual intercourse

age of reason

noun phrase

: the time of life when one begins to be able to distinguish right from wrong

Age of Copper

noun

: the Aeneolithic period

age of discretion

noun

: the age at which a person is considered by law to have sufficient knowledge to be held responsible for certain acts or competent to exercise certain powers

Age of Fishes

noun

: devonian

age of gold

noun

Age of Mammals

noun

: cenozoic

Age of Man

noun

Age of Reptiles

noun

: mesozoic

at the age of

idiom

: at the time of being a specified age


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