aged
nounderived /ˈeɪ.dʒɪd/
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Collective, With definite article Old people, collectively.
- the aged
- health insurance and retirement income for the aged
aged
adj/eɪdʒd/
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Old.
- I knocked on the door and an aged man opened it.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:
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Having the age of.
- Aged 18, he had no idea what to do with his life.
- John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.1865 October 6, “Court of Special Sessions”, in The New York Times:
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- Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.2012 March 22, Amy Chozick, “As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help”, in The New York Times:
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Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
- aged whiskey
- The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 44:
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25 terms
aged care, agedly, agedness, aged R-value, bottom-aged, bottom aged, college-aged, dry-aged, home for the aged, hyperaged, mid-aged, midaged, middle-aged, nonaged, older-aged, overaged, photoaged, school-aged, superaged, teen-aged, teenaged, top aged, top-aged, unaged, un-aged