WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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age, eld, geezerhood, get on, historic period, long time, maturate, mature, old age, senesce, years,
1. NOUN. (age)
how long something has existed
"it was replaced because of its age"
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chronological age, bone age, developmental age, fetal age, fertilization age, gestational age, mental age, oldness, newness, oldness, youngness,
2. NOUN. (age)
a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
"she was now of school age"
"tall for his eld"
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3. NOUN. (age)
a late time of life
"old age is not for sissies"
"he''s showing his years"
"age hasn''t slowed him down at all"
"a beard white with eld"
"on the brink of geezerhood"
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4. NOUN. (age)
a prolonged period of time
"we''ve known each other for ages"
"I haven''t been there for years and years"
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5. NOUN. (age)
an era of history having some distinctive feature
"we live in a litigious age"
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Elizabethan age, Victorian age, antiquity, golden age, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, Renaissance, industrial revolution, technological revolution, Reign of Terror, reign, turn of the century, Harlem Renaissance, New Deal, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period, Restoration,
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6. VERB. (age)
grow old or older
"She aged gracefully"
"we age every day--what a depressing thought!"
"Young men senesce"
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growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis, growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis, age, eld, old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood,
