{
    "term": "age",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed",
            "sensetop": "at the age of…from the age of…between the ages of…under/over the age of…for your age",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You're **the same age as** my brother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "ways of calculating the age of the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to reach **retirement age**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left school at the age of 18.",
                    "contextForm": "at the age of…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He started playing the piano **at an early age**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**At your age** I had already started work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children can start school from the age of four.",
                    "contextForm": "from the age of…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "children between the ages of 5 and 10",
                    "contextForm": "between the ages of…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children **range in age** from 5 to 10."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children's ages range from 5 to 10."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.",
                    "contextForm": "under/over the age of…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film is unsuitable for children below 12 **years of age**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Young people **of all ages** go there to meet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She needs more friends of her own age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All ages admitted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was tall **for his age** *(= taller than you would expect, considering his age)*.",
                    "contextForm": "for your age"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was beginning to **feel her age** *(= feel that she was getting old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The show appeals to all **age ranges**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There’s a big **age gap** between them *(= a big difference in their ages)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He could read by the age of four."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was still cycling even at the advanced age of 87."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She lived to the age of 75."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When you get to my age you get a different perspective on life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "children between the ages of five and eleven"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "tender", "young"],
                "verb + age": ["attain", "get to", "live to"],
                "age + noun": ["group", "range", "limit"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the age", "between the ages", "by the age"],
                "phrases": ["the age of consent", "somebody’s own age", "years of age"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a very long time",
            "sensetop": "for agesages ago",
            "labels": "(informal, especially British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It'll probably **take ages** to find a parking space."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I waited for ages.",
                    "contextForm": "for ages"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Carlos left ages ago.",
                    "contextForm": "ages ago"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's been an age since we've seen them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've been sitting here for absolutely ages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It took an age for us all to get on the boat."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + ages/​an age": ["spend", "take"],
                "phrases": ["absolutely ages", "ages ago", "for ages"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a particular period of a person’s life",
            "labels": "(often ironic)(often ironic)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "in **middle/old age**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "15 is an awkward age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She dreaded old age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a woman in early middle age"
                },
                {
                    "text": "children of school age"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "tender", "young"],
                "verb + age": ["attain", "get to", "live to"],
                "age + noun": ["group", "range", "limit"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the age", "between the ages", "by the age"],
                "phrases": ["the age of consent", "somebody’s own age", "years of age"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a particular period of history",
            "sensetop": "through the ages",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the nuclear age"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We live in an age of globalization."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a study of fashion through the ages",
                    "contextForm": "through the ages"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lived during the Elizabethan age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In an age when few women became politicians, her career was unusual."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an exhibition of Islamic art through the ages"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the age of wireless communication"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time", "History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["another", "bygone", "different"],
                "preposition": ["during the… age", "in a/​the age", "through the ages"],
                "phrases": ["in this day and age"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the state of being old",
            "sensetop": "with age",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The jacket was showing signs of age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "White hair is a sign of great age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wine improves with age.",
                    "contextForm": "with age"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the wisdom that comes with age"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a length of time that is a division of an epoch",
            "labels": "(geology)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to behave in a way that is suitable for somebody of your age and not as though you were much younger",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Isn’t it time you started acting your age?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "when a person comes of age, they reach the age when they have an adult’s legal rights and responsibilities",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The money will go to the children when they come of age."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if something comes of age, it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was the year that concern for the environment really came of age."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to realize that you are getting old, especially compared with people you are with who are younger than you",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a great age",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She finally learned to drive at the grand old age of 70."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "now, in the modern world",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Slavery continues to exist, even in this day and age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why dress so formally in this day and age?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She doesn’t look her age; I thought she was ten years younger."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a man of advanced years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you talk about a person being of a certain age, you mean that they are no longer young but not yet old",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The show appeals to an audience of a certain age."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an age that is considered to be very old",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He lived to the ripe old age of 91."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not legally old enough to do a particular thing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It is illegal to sell vapes to children who are under age."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/eɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "ag/age/age__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/eɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "ag/age/age__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’."
}