ELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eld mean? 

• ELD (noun)
  The noun ELD has 2 senses:

1. a late time of life

2. a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

  Familiarity information: ELD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A late time of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years

Context example:

on the brink of geezerhood

Hypernyms ("eld" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "eld"):

mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)

mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)

eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)

mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eld"):

dotage; second childhood; senility (mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

age; eld

Context example:

tall for his eld

Hypernyms ("eld" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eld"):

age of consent (the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union)

legal age; majority (the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs)

minority; nonage (any age prior to the legal age)

drinking age (the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages)

voting age (the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections)

Holonyms ("eld" is a part of...):

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))

 Context examples 

They ’eld over in the ’opes that you’d pull off the fight this mornin’.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)