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.
: of, for, or relating to old people
an old-age home
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The film follows a couple facing old age and the risk of losing their land while caring for their adult son Naraan, who has intellectual disabilities.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent releases include Cannes Directors’ Fortnight baseball comedy Eephus by Carson Lund; revenge thriller Ghost Trail by Jonathan Millet, and Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age drama Familiar Touch, starring Kathleen Chalfant, which won the Lion of the Future at Venice last year.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The film follows a couple facing old age and the risk of losing their land while caring for their adult son Naraan, who has intellectual disabilities.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Think child support payments for the parents of young children, think old-age pensions.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent releases include Cannes Directors’ Fortnight baseball comedy Eephus by Carson Lund; revenge thriller Ghost Trail by Jonathan Millet, and Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age drama Familiar Touch, starring Kathleen Chalfant, which won the Lion of the Future at Venice last year.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Old age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20age. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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