old age

1 of 2

noun

: the fact of being old

She died of old age.

: 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

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Noun

Read more: The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades In old age, with nothing left to lose, Kristofer sets out to find Miko; the trail goes cold more than once. —

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 July 2024 Biden’s cognitive variability isn’t necessarily a sign of illness, or even old age. —

Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 3 July 2024

Adjective

The 2025 project, a blueprint for a second Trump term, does recommend changes to Medicare that would emphasize private insurance plans, known as Medicare Advantage, over traditional Medicare — a traditional GOP approach to the old-age medical program. —

Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 Exactly how old-age support will work in societies so bereft of descendants is a question that has typically been relegated to dystopian science fiction treatises. —

Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for old age

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