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age
What does age mean?
age (noun): how long something has existed.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use age in a sentence?
- It was replaced because of its age. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce age?
/eɪdʒ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does age come from?
From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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the specified day of the month
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the words of something written
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how long something has existed
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