old age

1 of 2

noun

1

: the fact of being old

She died of old age.

2

: the time of life when a person is old

He's getting sweeter in his old age.

old-age

2 of 2

adjective

: of, for, or relating to old people

an old-age home

Examples of old age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

No politician wants to be responsible for cutting the program many Americans rely on to get by financially in old age. —Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 June 2025

First age, then politics Yet, for all that, the rise of the 85-and-up crowd is only part of why McAleer and other local advocates fear that dignified old age is about to become tougher to achieve. —Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 20 June 2025

Adjective

In March 2025, about 60 million of these were claiming old-age and survivor benefits, while 8 million were collecting disability benefits. —Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025

And the reason that the savings rate is high is because Chinese households are concerned about their future pension liabilities, medical liabilities, old-age liabilities, because the government doesn’t provide enough social protection. —Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for old age

• assuage
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• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
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• pelage