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aged
[ ey-jid eyjd ]
adjective
- having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old:
an aged man;
an aged tree.
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- pertaining to or characteristic of old age:
aged wrinkles.
- of the age of:
a man aged 40 years.
- brought to maturity or mellowness, as wine, cheese, or wood:
aged whiskey.
- Physical Geography. old; approaching the state of a peneplain.
noun
- old people collectively:
We must have improved medical care for the aged.
It seems we all, aged and young alike, live in a kind of continuum of existence.
aged
/ ˈɪɪ /
adjective
- advanced in years; old
- ( as collective noun; preceded by the )
the aged
- of, connected with, or characteristic of old age
- ɪ postpositive having the age of
a woman aged twenty
- geography not in technical use having reached an advanced stage of erosion
Other 51Թ Forms
- g· adverb
- g·Ա noun
- · adjective
- ܲ· adjective
- ɱ- adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
When Sharon quit her job and became a foster carer aged 51, her friends and family asked: "Why would you want to?"
Lennon was shot dead just over a decade later at 40, while Harrison died of cancer in 2001, aged 58.
An RAF veteran who was among the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima following its atomic bombing by the US in World War Two has died aged 102.
A 48-year-old man and a girl, aged 10, have died following a fire at a caravan park in Lincolnshire.
Now aged 47, he has been addicted to drugs for more than 20 years.
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