AGES

"AGES" is a plural of: age.

Date "AGES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Literature

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Diuturnity

Adverb: long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago; (in a past time); longo intervallo.

Futurity

Noun: futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future.

Ignorance

Sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages.

Perpetuity

Adverb: perpetually; Adjective: always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time"; till doomsday; constantly; (very frequently).

The Past

Adverb: paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time; Noun: anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back.

Crosswords: AGES

Latin (conduct, deliver, drive, spend, thank, urge).

In the Middle Ages you could get locked up for even suggesting it (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You know that the average New Yorker between the ages of twenty and fifty has two and a half colds a year (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

I'll be back in the Middle Ages. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

They've been like that all down through the ages. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood, Jr.)

Well, you must admit there's a bit of a gap between your ages. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Did you notice the sunset for the first time in ages, (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

She rocks me like the rock of ages (Loves Me Like a Rock; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon)

They come in all ages (The Difference; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969)

Key to the Ages (1955)

Battle of the Ages (1952)

Wisdom of the Ages (1952)

Old Bill Through the Ages (1924)

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References

• Rock of Ages Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages Until the Early Twentieth Century (reference)

• The Battle of Hastings (Battles of the Middle Ages) (reference)

• The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series) (reference)

• Young Ballplayer's Guide to: Safe Pitching: Ages Eight Through Adult With Conditioning and Weight Training to Develop Power Throwing and Batting, P (reference)

• The Joy of Dancing, the Next Steps: Ballroom, Latin and Jive for Social Dancers for All Ages (reference)

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Periodicals

• Caring For The Ages (reference)

• Profane Arts Of The Middle Ages (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Yoga Fitness For Kids Ages 7-12 (reference)

• Consolidation: Ages 6 to 11 (reference)

• Dr. Wayne Dyer: How To Get What You Really Really Really Really Want, Improve Your Life Using The Wisdom Of The Ages (reference)

• Maltese Fraction Ages 5-10 Math (reference)

• Graduated Soccer Ages 7 to 14 (reference)

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Music

• Barely Legal/All Ages (reference)

• Glazunov: The Kremlin, From the Middle Ages, etc. (reference)

• Songs & Dances of the Middle Ages (reference)

• A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages (reference)

• Musica Mystica - Mystic Women of the Middle Ages (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Reading Blaster Ages 7-8 (reference)

• Reader Rabbit Math Adventure Ages 4-6 (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Reader Rabbit Reading Ages 6-9 (reference)

• Noah's Ark Activity Center (Jewel Case Ages 3-8) (reference)

• The Day The World Broke Ages 9-up (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Gangrene is one of the manifestations of plague, and is the origin of the term "Black Death" given to plague throughout the ages. Credit: CDC.

Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Credit: CDC.

All ages enjoy fishing. Credit: Fisheries.

The Agricultural Research Service is committed to improving human nutritional status through research. Primary goals are to expand knowledge of the nutrients found in foods, their functions and interactions, and their biological availability, and to precisely define the nutrient needs of people of all ages. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

There was work for all ages. Credit: Scott Brayton.

Shakespeares Seven Ages. : Last scene of all. / Henry Alkin, del et sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fluorides are for all ages!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The great Presidential sweepstakes of 1856. Free for all ages, "go as they please". Credit: Library of Congress.

Roman presenting gift to woman in modern dress watched by crowd of people dressed in costumes from other ages. Credit: Library of Congress.

A great wrong! See how one year of factory life ages little girls. Our national disgrace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. (reference)

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. (reference)

The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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But, given ages and ages more, surely all created reasons would at length reach the same dead level of satiety

Alas! it is true, social suffering begins at all ages.

And for ages men had gazed upward as he was gazing at birds in flight

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

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Health

IBS affects people of all ages, including children. (references)

All ages at risk but most common in school-age children. (references)

In most cases, the disease progresses as the person ages. (references)

Business

A total of 3.7 million children between the ages of 6 and 12 participate. (references)

Therefore, all children between the ages of 6 and 14 should be attending basic education programs. (references)

Professional working women of all ages look for elegant but practical clothing, not readily available in Argentina. (references)

Children

Sri Lanka

The law requires children between the ages of 5 and 14 to attend school. (references)

Angola

Sexual relations with a child between the ages of 12 and 17 can be considered sexual abuse. (references)

Kiribati

Primary education is compulsory, free, and universal for children between the ages of 6 and 14 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Except for senior PA officials, Palestinians of all ages crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel are not permitted to travel by car across the main checkpoint. (references)

China

The shortfall is most severe for persons between the ages of 35 and 65. No priests or other clergy in the official churches were ordained between 1955 and 1985. Due to government prohibitions, unofficial churches have particularly significant problems training clergy or sending students to study overseas, and many clergy receive only limited and inadequate preparation. (references)

Guatemala

Since 1999 Soto has been under investigation by prosecutors for the alleged repeated sexual abuse of two girls, ages 9 and 11. Separately, Congressional deputies Anabella de Leon and Magda Arceo, and the previous director of the printing office, Sylvia Mendez, filed their own motion against Soto and Vice President Francisco Reyes Lopez on charges of abuse of authority. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

From ages 7-16, children attend compulsory comprehensive school. (references)

Chad

The region was known to traders and geographers from the late Middle Ages. (references)

Mexico

By 1999, 94% of the population between the ages of 6 and 14 were enrolled in school. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

At year's end, 170 juveniles ages 13 to 17, including 11 girls, were in detention. (references)

Guyana

The Ruimveldt police station was the only facility holding juveniles between ages 14 and 17 years. (references)

Algeria

Within hours security forces rounded up and detained more than 100 persons of both sexes and a variety of ages. (references)

Indigenous People

Dominica

About 65 percent of the Carib population is between the ages of 18 and 35. The reservation is governed by the 1978 Carib Constitution. (references)

Australia

Aboriginal juveniles accounted for 42 percent of those between the ages of 10 to 17 in juvenile corrective institutions during 2000, according to the AIC. (references)

Australia

The AIC reports that the incarceration rate among indigenous youth was 18.5 times that of the nonindigenous youth population in 1999. Over 45 percent of Aboriginal men between the ages of 20 and 30 years have been arrested at some time in their lives. (references)

Minorities

Liechtenstein

In its 1998 security report, the Government confirmed the existence of a small number of rightwing extremists, consisting of approximately 20 skinheads between the ages of 20 and 30, and approximately 20 followers of a slightly younger age. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

Employment between ages 15 and 20 is strictly regulated. (references)

CHILE

The Chilean government estimates that roughly 50,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 work. (references)

Political Rights

Peru

Voting is by secret ballot and mandatory for citizens between the ages of 18 and 70; however, members of the armed forces and the police, as well as felons, are ineligible to vote. (references)

Cuba

Slightly more than 50 percent of those elected were incumbents, 20 percent were women, and approximately 9 percent of all candidates were between the ages of 16 and 30. The reports also claimed that nationwide the number of blank ballots decreased from 3.2 percent to 2.8 percent, while the number of annulled votes also decreased to 3 percent from nearly 4 percent, compared with the last election. (references)

Women

Malawi

The literacy rate among women between the ages of 15 and 45 is less than 37 percent. (references)

Worker Rights

Yemen

By special permit, children between the ages of 12 and 15 may work. (references)

Cambodia

Approximately 16.5 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 work. (references)

Ghana

The ILO estimated that 12 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 14 work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AGES": Ages and styles of Europe ♦ ages Brookside ♦ dark ages ♦ down the ages ♦ for ages ♦ i haven't seen you for ages age so long ♦ middle ages ♦ of remote ages ♦ past ages ♦ rock of ages ♦ shrinkage at early ages ♦ the dark ages ♦ the middle ages. Additional references.

Beginning with "AGES": ages-long, ages-old.

Ending with "AGES": after-ages, all-ages, ice-ages, Middle-ages, retirement-ages, waiting-for-ages.

Albanian

moshë e mesme (middle ages), gjatë shekujve (for ages, in the course of the centuries, throughout the centuries). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متعلق بالقرون الوسطى (medieval, middle ages), ‏القرون الوسطى (middle ages), ‏العصور الوسطى (middle ages). (various references)

Bulgarian 

средновековен (mediaeval, medieval, middle ages), исус христос (jesus christ, paschal lamb, rock of ages). (various references)

Chinese 

後代 (later ages, later generations, later periods, posterity), 中世紀 (medieval, Middle Ages). (various references)

Czech

středovìk (middle ages), navìky (evermore, for ages, forever, till the end of times). (various references)

Danish

under standardbetingelser med hensyn til hærdetid og prøvningshastighed (at conventional ages and rate of testing), tidsaldre og stilarter i Europa (ages and styles in Europe). (various references)

Dutch

perioden en stijlen in Europa (Ages and styles of Europe), Middeleeuwen (Middle Ages), Europese stijlperiodes (ages and styles in Europe). (various references)

Esperanto

Mezepoko (Middle Ages). (various references)

Finnish

keskiaika (the Middle Ages), keski (the Middle Ages), halki aikojen (through the ages). (various references)

French

viellit. (various references)

German

Zeitalter (age, period), Weltalter, altert (grows old). (various references)

Greek 

ηλικίες. (various references)

Hebrew 

ימי הבינים (middle ages). (various references)

Hungarian

mindenkor (always, at all times, ever, through all ages), minden korban (through all ages), középkor (middle ages), idők végtelenségéig (through all ages). (various references)

Italian

evo (age), eternità (eternity, immortality, perpetuity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一昔 (decade, long time, the past ten years). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとむかし (decade, long time, the past ten years). (various references)

Manx

sheeloghyn ry heet (after ages). (various references)

Pig Latin

agesay.(various references)

Portuguese

idade (age, epoch, period). (various references)

Romanian

secolele trecute (past ages), nu te-am vãzut de o veşnicie (I haven't seen you for ages age so long), evul mediu (mediaevalism, middle ages, the dark ages), din vremuri strãvechi (of remote ages, yore). (various references)

Russian 

возраст (age, time). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srednji vek (middle ages), srednjevekovni (mediaeval, medieval, middle ages), odavno (age: for ages, lang syne, long ago, long since, long: a long time ago, old: of old, yore). (various references)

Spanish

siglos (centuries). (various references)

Swedish

åratal (years). (various references)

Thai

นานมาก (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (donkey's ages, donkey's years, till the cows come home). (various references)

Turkish

asırlar, uzun zaman (long, long time), uzun süre (donkey's years, heaps of time, long, long term, long time). (various references)

Ukrainian

через віки (down the ages). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "AGES": acreages, adages, advantages, afterimages, agiotages, alienages, ambages, amperages, anchorages, anecdotages, anlages, apanages, appanages, appendages, arbitrages, arrearages, assemblages, assuages, asswages, averages, bacteriophages, badinages, baggages, bandages, baronages, baronetages, barrages, barrelages, beverages, birdcages, blindages, blockages, bondages, borages, boscages, boskages, brakeages, brassages, breakages, brewages, bricolages, brigandages, brockages, brokages, brokerages, bulkages, buoyages, burgages, cabbages, cabotages, cages. (additional references)

Words containing "AGES": almagest, almagests, sagest, savagest, sexagesimal, sexagesimals, stagestruck. (additional references)

Misspellings

"AGES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abes, abez, acgs, aega, aeggs, aesc, Aevs, Afecs, Agah, agas, Agass, agaw, agaz, Agaza, agea, ageas, agee, agees, agef, ageis, agem, agens, agers, agest, aget, Aggeson, aggies, Aggis, Aggiss, agi, Agias, agies, Agis, agnes, agogs, agos, agrest, ags, agus, agust, agvs, agw, ahes, ajers, ajes, ajets, ajex, ajs, Anes, angas, anges, aoes, Aqesqn, ares, arez, ases, ates, augeus, aves, Avesco, azems, azes, eges, gaeas, gaes, gaess, gase, ges, gse, hges, Iges, ogas, sges, vages. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gaes, sage.

-1 letter: age, gae, gas, sae, sag, sea, seg.

-2 letters: ae, ag, as, es.

+1 letter: aegis, agers, agues, cages, degas, egads, gages, gales, games, gapes, gases, gates, gazes, gears, getas, mages, pages, peags, rages, sager, sages, sarge, stage, swage, usage, wages.

+2 letters: adages, agates, agaves, ageism, ageist, agenes, agents, aggers, aggies, aglets, agones, agrees, angels, angers, angles, argles, argues, augers, badges, bagels, barges, belgas, cadges, cagers, dagoes, dosage, eagers, eagles, eagres, easing, egesta, eggars, fadges, gabies, gables, gaffes, gagers, galeas, gambes, gamers, gamest, ganefs, ganevs, gapers, gashed, gasher, gashes, gasket, gasmen, gasped, gasper, gassed, gasser, gasses, gasted, gaster, gauges, gauzes, gavels, gawsie, gayest, gazers, geisha, genoas, gerahs, glaces, glades, glares, glazes, gleams, gleans, graces, grades, grapes, grates, graves, grazes, grease, greasy, greats, gyrase, images, jagers, lagers, larges, legals, ligase, manges, marges, maskeg, megass, omegas, pagers, parges, peages, phages, plages, ragees, ranges, retags, sagely, sagest, sagged, sagger, sagier, sanger, sarges, sauger, savage, seabag, seadog, seggar, senega, sewage, silage, smegma, socage, sparge, staged, stager, stages, stagey, swaged, swager, swages, targes, teguas, usages, vegans, visage, wagers, yagers.