| age | (noun) how long something has existed | - |
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| (noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: eld |
| (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: eld, geezerhood, old age, years |
| (noun) an era of history having some distinctive feature | Synonyms: historic period |
| (noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: long time, years |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: get on, maturate, mature, senesce |
| (verb) begin to seem older; get older | - |
| (verb) make older | - |
| aged | (adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process | Synonyms: cured |
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| (adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: ripened |
| (adjective) at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable) | - |
| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: elderly, older, senior |
| (adjective) having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: of age |
| (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: elderly |
| agedness | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: senescence |
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| ageing | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: aging, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: aging, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: aging, ripening |
| ageism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: agism |
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| ageless | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| agelessness | (noun) the quality of being timeless and eternal | - |
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| agelong | (adjective) lasting through all time | - |
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| agency | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: means, way |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | - |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: delegacy, representation |
| (noun) the state of being in action or exerting power | - |
| agenda | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: docket, schedule |
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| (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agendum, order of business |
| agendum | (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agenda, order of business |
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| agenesia | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesis |
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| agenesis | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesia |
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| agent | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: agentive role |
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| (noun) an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect | - |
| (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: broker, factor |
| (noun) a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations | - |
| (noun) any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau | Synonyms: federal agent |
| (noun) a substance that exerts some force or effect | - |
| agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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| agerasia | (noun) youthful appearance in an old person | - |
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| ageratum | (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers | - |
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| (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower, mistflower |