plural agers
1
: someone or something that ages a person or thing
Exposure to high-decibel sounds causes blood pressure and stress hormones to surge, and both can be major brain agers.—
Michael Roizen
Michael RoizenBeeler calls himself a master seller and ager of cheeses ….—Scott Haas
Scott Haas2
: something (such as a wine) that improves in taste and quality as it ages
… but Chardonnay, a close second, has proved to be a good ager.—Oz Clarke and Steven Spurrier
Oz Clarke and Steven SpurrierExamples of ager in a Sentence
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No time machine could take Russell back to her younger self, the Denver teen-ager who’d fallen down the rabbit hole.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
There will be no three-peat; the winner of the last two events, teen-ager John Lucian Goins, was taken out by the veteran Jay Devilliers in three games in the round of 32.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The seemingly unassuming coming-of-ager – a sunny portrait of happy high-school adolescence in Seoul – builds in complexity as a vision of livewire student’s Joo-in’s courage and resilience in the face of trauma, unknown and then misinterpreted by her equally young classmates.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
These fast agers were also 40% more likely to die within this window of time.
—New Atlas, 9 July 2025
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
There will be no three-peat; the winner of the last two events, teen-ager John Lucian Goins, was taken out by the veteran Jay Devilliers in three games in the round of 32.
—Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The seemingly unassuming coming-of-ager – a sunny portrait of happy high-school adolescence in Seoul – builds in complexity as a vision of livewire student’s Joo-in’s courage and resilience in the face of trauma, unknown and then misinterpreted by her equally young classmates.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
These fast agers were also 40% more likely to die within this window of time.
—New Atlas, 9 July 2025
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“Ager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ager. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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