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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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 July 2025
Japan’s spending on labor and employment support, poverty relief, and social protection (excluding old age and health-care spending) increased from 0.5 to 3.7 percent of GDP between 1990 and 2020.
—Mark L. Haas, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
Angela Andaloro, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
The only visitors so early in the day were a few foreign tourists and a caravan of elderly Japanese in wheelchairs on an outing from an old-age home.
—Hazlitt, 16 July 2025
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Noun
Social Security’s trust funds, which cover old age and disability recipients, will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2034, according to the most recent report from the program’s trustees.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 July 2025
Japan’s spending on labor and employment support, poverty relief, and social protection (excluding old age and health-care spending) increased from 0.5 to 3.7 percent of GDP between 1990 and 2020.
—Mark L. Haas, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
Adjective
In a dream sequence, the entertainers each appear as themselves, just 50 years older in an old-age home, preparing to watch that very special in 2025.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
The only visitors so early in the day were a few foreign tourists and a caravan of elderly Japanese in wheelchairs on an outing from an old-age home.
—Hazlitt, 16 July 2025
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“Old age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20age. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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