old age

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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

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adjective

: of, for, or relating to old people
an old-age home

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Noun
Particularly, old age is characterized by a significant physical and mental decline. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025 The snail signals a poetic contradiction that can be associated with old age as well: slow in movement but infinite in possibilities. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Adjective
And Thomas Paine called for a 10% estate tax to fund old-age pensions and a payment to every person at 21. Time, 7 July 2025 During the 1950s, rest homes and convalescent homes emerged, nurtured by a new federal policy that allowed old-age payments to go directly to private nursing homes. Kat McGowan, NPR, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for old age

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“Old age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20age. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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