OF AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does of age mean? 

• OF AGE (adjective)
  The adjective OF AGE has 1 sense:

1. having attained a specific age; ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable)

  Familiarity information: OF AGE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OF AGE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having attained a specific age; ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable)

Synonyms:

aged; of age

Context example:

ten years of age

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

The years usually referred to as adolescence lie between 13 and 18 years of age.

(Adolescence, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) research efforts related to children 0-18 years of age.

(Pediatric AIDS, NCI Thesaurus)

It affects males more often than females and the patients are usually over 50 years of age.

(Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A human life stage that begins at twelve years of age and continues until twenty-one complete years of age, generally marked by the beginning of puberty and lasting to the beginning of adulthood.

(Adolescence, NICHD)

SIDS is the sudden, unexplained, death of an infant under 1 year of age.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

Adolescents; persons of age 13-17 (from PSY94)

(Adolescents, NCI Thesaurus)

He could not have been much above twenty years of age.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This high-risk microbiota group was also more likely to be diagnosed with asthma at 4 years of age.

(Infant gut microbes linked to allergy, asthma risk, NIH)

A person from 18 years to 65 years of age.

(Adult 18-65 Years Old, NCI Thesaurus)

For all three groups, men and those over the age of 65 had higher suicide rates than women and people 10-24 years of age.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)