OLD AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old age mean? 

• OLD AGE (noun)
  The noun OLD AGE has 1 sense:

1. a late time of life

  Familiarity information: OLD AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD AGE (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 ("old age" 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 "old age"):

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 "old age"):

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

 Context examples 

He has ever said that he would care for me in mine old age.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study of the psychological and behavioral changes that occur in an organism between birth and old age.

(Developmental Psychology, NCI Thesaurus)

The degree of slow wave sleep enhancement was related to the degree of memory improvement, suggesting slow wave sleep remains important for memory, even in old age.

(Sound Waves Boost Older Adult' Memory, Deep Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There for many years in a happy and peaceful old age lived Jack Harrison and his wife, receiving back in the sunset of their lives the loving care which they had themselves bestowed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so I come back from Cambell Fort, and no payment has been made, and Moklan is dead, and in my old age I am without fish and meat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After a silence of some minutes she observed—"With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I say normal cases, because ill-health and physical weakness reproduce the signs of old age, even when the invalid is a youth.

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

She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Although the condition is not life-threatening, patients have persistent fever and swollen lymph nodes from childhood to old age, as well as other symptoms that can lead to lifelong pain and disability.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)