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

The findings may therefore apply differently to children, younger adults and people in very old age. — The Conversation Us, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026

Chester Dale, whose bequest forms the core of the NGA’s Cassatt holdings, favored the range of her female subjects, from girlhood and adolescence to adulthood and old age. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

Adjective

One problem with all these efforts to mitigate old-age loneliness, Schiller notes, is that the loneliest generation is actually Gen Z. — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032, unless Congress combines the program's old-age and disability funds, in which case insolvency would arrive in 2034, the report found. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026

Rhymes for old age

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