Synonyms for old age
old age

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1. old agenoun

   Synonyms:
   eld

2. old agenoun

   The latter part of life, the part of life after one's prime.

   People of old age are often hard of hearing.

   Synonyms:
   eld

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1. old age, years, age, eld, geezerhoodnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   long time, geezerhood, eld, days, age, historic period, years

Matched Categories

1. • Time Of Life

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1. old age

   Synonyms:
   senility, dotage, superannuation, decrepitude

   Associated words:
   geratology, geratic, gerontic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. old age

   Synonyms:
   See Geriatric
   

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1. old age

   Read the full text of the Old Age poem by Arthur Symons on the Poetry.com website.

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How to use old age in a sentence?

1. Aldous Huxley:

   The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

2. Luigi Ferrucci:

   This could be one example where a less common genetic variation causes limited disease in the young and middle-aged, but reduces resilience and causes susceptibility to multiple diseases later in life, identifying more of these genetic variants may lead to new treatment targets to ultimately improve health and function in old age.

3. Firmianus Lactantius:

   Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

4. Joseph Schumpeter:

   The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

5. C. C. Colton:

   How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.