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Definition: Ageless |
AgelessAdjective1. Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ageless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonyms: AgelessSynonyms: eternal (adj), everlasting (adj), perpetual (adj), unceasing (adj), unending (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ageless |
| English words defined with "ageless": eternal, everlasting ♦ perpetual ♦ unceasing, unending. (references) |
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Lyrics | But Bennie makes them ageless ("Bennie And The Jets"; performing artist: Elton John) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The New York Philharmonic in Venice: The Ageless Mozart (1959) Ageless Desire (1999) | |
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 | Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class Jackie Welsh depetals a flower to settle an ageless question of romance, as Signalman 2nd Class Harold Howey records the event on film. Witnesses are Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Anna Welsh (left) and Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Evalyne Olsen. All four are stationed at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana. The photograph was taken prior to December 1944.Credit: NAVY. |  | The Beacon : a magazine of esoteric philosophy, presenting the principles of the Ageless Wisdom as a contemporary way of life.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Ageless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Ageless" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ageless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjithmonë i ri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вечно млад, неостаряващ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 永' (Eternal, Eternity, Everlasting, timeless, Timelessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìènì mladý, nestárnoucí (fadeless, timeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zeitlos (agelessly, classic, dateless, eternal, timeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άγηροσ, αγήραστοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kortalan, kor nélküli, időtlen (dateless, immemorial, timeless), örökkévaló (eternal, everlasting, holy one, never ending, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal), örökifjú, örök időre szóló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | che non invecchia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 늙지 않". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agelessay sempre jovem, eterno (eternal, everlasting, peregrinate, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending). (various references) veşnic tânãr. (various references) нестареющий (unaged, unaging). (various references) koji ne stari. (various references) eterno (eternal, everlasting, perpetual, timeless, undying). (various references) tidlös (classic, immutable, timeless). (various references) yaşlanmaz, yıpranmaz, evlâdiyelik, eskimez. (various references) вічний (dateless, eternal, everlasting, perdurable, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, unending), нестаріючий (timeless). (various references) vĩnh viễn (agelong, endless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, forever, indefeasible, perdurable, perennial, perpetual), đời đời (agelong, deathless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, evermore, sempiternal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ageless": agelessly, agelessness, agelessnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ageless": wageless. (additional references) | |
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"Ageless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abelesz, aegolius, agees, agelet, agenes, a'ghlas, agilis, Aigaleos, Aigles, Angelescu, angerless, arelles, argleses, Galeses, gameless, pageless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ageless" (pronounced ā"jlus) |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: eagles, easels, leases. | |
-2 letters: aglee, eagle, easel, eases, gales, gases, glass, glees, lases, lease, leges, sages, sales, seals, seels, slags. | |
-3 letters: agee, ages, alee, ales, ease, eels, egal, else, eses, gaes, gale, gals, gees, gels, glee, lags, lase, lass, leas, lees, legs, less, sage, sags, sale, sals, seal, seas, seel, sees, segs, sels, slag. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, als, ass, eel, els, ess, gae, gal, gas, gee, gel, lag, las, lea, lee, leg, sae, sag, sal, sea, see, seg, sel. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, al, as, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s" | |
+1 letter: eelgrass, eyeglass, gateless, gearless, largesse, selvages, wageless. | |
+2 letters: agelessly, angeluses, angerless, ensilages, fuselages, gaseliers, gasolenes, graceless, gradeless, graveless, guessable, largeness, largesses, legaleses, legalises, mesogleas, salvagees, stealages, verglases. | |
+3 letters: agendaless, anglesites, assemblage, changeless, eelgrasses, eyeglasses, galleasses, gladnesses, greaseless, legislates, megalopses, mesogloeas, regardless, sacrileges, sleazebags, sloganeers. | |
+4 letters: agelessness, allegorises, angelfishes, assemblages, bluegrasses, detasseling, evangelisms, evangelists, generalises, generalists, goldenseals, gracelessly, gracileness, greaseballs, largenesses, legateships, meaningless, persiflages, plasmagenes, sexagesimal, unguessable, wineglasses. | |
+5 letters: aggressively, anglerfishes, beggarliness, changelessly, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, collagenases, daughterless, detasselling, disentangles, escapologies, everlastings, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, genealogists, generalships, gesellschaft, gesticulates, gladsomeness, glassinesses, glasspapered, gracefulness, gratefulness, irregardless, legislatives, legislatures, lemongrasses, palingeneses, palingenesis, pleasingness, reassemblage, reassembling, regardlessly, selaginellas, sexagesimals, slanginesses, slaughterers, steelmakings, tangibleness, tessellating, weatherglass. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 65 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g e l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35737178718585 |
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