Tra từ age - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

age [age ages aged ageing] noun, verb BrE [eɪdʒ] NAmE [eɪdʒ]
noun
1. countable, uncountable the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
• He left school at the age of 18.
• She needs more friends of her own age.
•children from 5–10 years of age
•Young people of all ages go there to meet.
•When I was your age I was already married.
•He started playing the piano at an early age.
•All ages admitted.
•Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.
•She was beginning to feel her age (= feel that she was getting old).
•He was tall for his age (= taller than you would expect, considering his age).
•There's a big age gap between them (= a big difference in their ages).
•ways of calculating the age of the earth
2. uncountable, countable a particular period of a person's life
•middle age
•15 is an awkward age.
• He died of old age.
see also ↑third age
3. countable a particular period of history
•the nuclear age
•the age of the computer
see also ↑Bronze Age, ↑Iron Age, ↑New Age, ↑Stone Age
4. uncountable the state of being old
• Wine improves with age.
• The jacket was showing signs of age.
•the wisdom that comes with age
5. agesplural (also an age singular) (informal, especially BrE)a very long time
• I waited for ages.
• It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
•Carlos left ages ago.
•It's been an age since we've seen them.
6. countable (geology)a length of time which is a division of an ↑epoch
more at sb's advanced age at ↑advanced, of a certain age at ↑certain, in this day and age at ↑day, feel your age at ↑feel _v., a/the grand old age at ↑grand _adj., a/the ripe old age (of…) at ↑ripe

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.

Thesaurus:
age noun C, U
1.
•children of different ages
generation • • age group •
people of your own age/generation
people of all ages/generations/age groups
the younger/older generation/age group
2. C
•in the nuclear age
era • • period • • time • • day • • century • • generation • |formal epoch •
in the… age/era/period
(the) modern age/era/period/times/day
the end of a/an age/era/period/century/epoch
Which word? Age, era and epoch are used more for a period in history; times and days are often used for the present
•modern times
• these days

Collocations:
The ages of life
Childhood/youth
be born and raised/bred in Oxford; into a wealthy/middle-class family
have a happy/an unhappy/a tough childhood
grow up in a musical family/an orphanage; on a farm
be/grow up an only child (= with no brothers or sisters)
reach/hit/enter/go through adolescence/puberty
be in your teens/early twenties/mid-twenties/late twenties
undergo/experience physical/psychological changes
give in to/succumb to/resist peer pressure
assert your independence/individuality
Adulthood
leave school/university/home
go out to work (at sixteen)
get/find a job/partner
be/get engaged/married
have/get a wife/husband/mortgage/steady job
settle down and have kids/children/a family
begin/start/launch/build a career (in politics/science/the music industry)
prove (to be)/represent/mark/reach a (major) turning point for sb/in your life/career
reach/be well into/settle into middle age
have/suffer/go through a midlife crisis
take/consider early retirement
approach/announce/enjoy your retirement
Old age
have/see/spend time with your grandchildren
take up/pursue/develop a hobby
get/receive/draw/collect/live on a pension
approach/save for/die from old age
live to a ripe old age
reach the grand old age of 102/23 (often ironic)
be/become/be getting/be going senile (often ironic)
die (peacefully)/pass away in your sleep/after a brief illness

Example Bank:
•Act your age!
•At your age I had already started work.
•Carlos left ages ago.
•He could read by the age of four.
•He lived during the Elizabethan age.
•He was sent away to school at an early age.
•He was still active even at the advanced age of 87.
•He's 20 years of age.
•He's quite a big boy for his age.
•I've been sitting here for absolutely ages.
•In an age when few women became politicians, her career was unusual.
•It is illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18.
•It took an age for us all to get on the boat.
•She dreaded old age.
•She lived to the age of 75.
•She needs a friend of her own age to play with.
•She was beginning to feel her age.
•The general age of consent for sexual activity is 16.
•The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 years.
•This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age.
•Twelve million people are over retirement age.
•Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age.
•We had to wait for ages!
•When you get to my age you get a different perspective on life.
•White hair is a sign of great age.
•Why dress so formally in this day and age?
•a pleasant woman in early middle age
•an exhibition of Islamic art through the ages
•children between the ages of five and eleven
•children of school age
•the age of the wireless communication
•the golden age of Hollywood
•Are the laws of war still relevant in the nuclear age?
•He started playing the piano at an early age.
•It was only now, in middle age, that she was beginning to enjoy life.
•She needs to find more friends of her own age.
•They dug up several examples of Bronze Age pottery.
•children from 5–10 years of age
Idioms: ↑come of age ▪ ↑look your age ▪ ↑under age ▪ your age

verb (ag·ing, aged, aged) In BrE the present participle can also be spelled age • ing.
1. intransitive to become older
•As he aged, his memory got worse.
•The population is aging (= more people are living longer).
2. transitive to make sb/sth look, feel or seem older
•~ sb The shock has aged her.
•~ sth Exposure to the sun ages the skin.
•These photos have been artificially aged.
3. intransitive, transitive to develop in flavour over a period of time; to allow sth to do this
Syn: ↑mature
•The cheese is left to age for at least a year.
•~ sth The wine is aged in oak casks.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.

Example Bank:
•He had put on weight and aged a little.
•My mother has really aged since she became ill.
•The shock has aged her a lot.
•This wine has not aged well.
•a rapidly ageing/aging population