Old Age

Definition: Old Age

Old Age

Noun

1. 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".

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Mining

Statistics

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Synonyms: Old Age

Age

Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.

Completion

Ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach; (arrive); get in the harvest.

Crosswords: Old Age

To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

We've got to think about our old age. (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

He didn't die of old age, either (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Now old age is creeping up on me. (The Outlaw Josey Wales; writing credit: Forrest Carter; Sonia Chernus)

Of old age. (I Dream of Jeannie; writing credit: James B. Allardice)

Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age. (references; author: unknown)

Old Age Pension (1935)

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Books

• Assessment Scales in Old Age Psychiatry (reference)

• Changing Places: A Journey With My Parents into Their Old Age (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• OLD AGE MEETS NEW AGE Sheli Nan at the Harpsichord (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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George Davidson In old age on the steamer SPOKANE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cartoons depicting officers of the BLAKE in their old age by Charles D. Sigsbee, Commanding Officer of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Walt Whitman in old age. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Old age" near Washington, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Widtsoe, Utah. Morman woman, native of Denmark, receiving her first old age assistance check. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bertland, old age pensioners in Penfield, Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Bob Mullins, old age pensioner in Penfield, Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

The voyage of life - old age / engraved by James Smillie. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Four seasons of life: old age "The season of rest" / / J.M. Ives, del. ; drawn by Parsons & Atwater. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Nevertheless, the rights acquired, or in course of being acquired, by the employees of the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty, in connection with pensions for old age or disability, will not be affected. (reference)

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (reference)

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Alas! how sickness extemporises old age.

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Health

The NINDS conducts and supports a wide range of research on dementing disorders, including dementias of old age such as Binswanger's disease. (references)

In rodents, the number of new cells varies, with numbers increasing with exercise and environmental enrichment and decreasing with old age and some forms of stress. (references)

At 11 or 12 months of age (about half their normal life span), the rats' brains looked like those of animals in old age. It is not known whether a similar effect occurs in humans. (references)

Business

Redundant staff will be laid off or “reorganized” and encouraged to develop old age care services. (references)

The most frequent users are in the 15-19 year old age group, where 94 percent have used a computer at least once in their life. Computers are used mainly for word processing in a work setting. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

Cinema is primarily a support medium with a strong reach among the 15 to 24 year old age group. (references)

Sweden

Central and local authorities play a dominant role in providing educational, health, old age, disability, unemployment, and a wide variety of other social services. (references)

Costa Rica

Employers pay mandatory payroll taxes that cover such expenses as INA vocational training and social security (health, maternity, disability, old age, and death benefits). (references)

Travel

Argentina

They must not be resident in Argentina and must be covered for contingencies such as old age, disability or death by the law of their own country. (references)

Women

South Africa

Elderly women, many of whom are primary caregivers for their grandchildren, benefit from legislation under which women qualify for the national old age pension at 60 years of age (men qualify at 65 years of age). (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

The package includes the introduction of voluntary group insurance, expansion of existing low-cost housing projects, an increase in monetary compensation for death or disability, and an increase in old age pensions. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Old age

Old age

Inconvenience of old age

Old age

Old age

Expressions using "old age": a green old age ♦ anticipated old age pension ♦ complaints of old age ♦ green old age ♦ happy old age ♦ in his old age ♦ in one's old age ♦ national old age pension ♦ old age annuity ♦ Old Age Assistance ♦ old age hospital ♦ old age insurance ♦ old age pension ♦ old age pension insurance ♦ old age pensioner. Additional references.

Albanian

tradicional (conventional, traditional, traditionary), pleqëri (age, anility, Eld, senility), plak (aged, graybeard, greybeard, old, old man, oldster). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عمر الشيخوخة, ‏الشيخوخة (senility), ‏شيخوخة (aging, caducity, senility, sunset), ‏شيب (go gray, white hair). (various references)

Bulgarian 

старост (adulthood, age, anility, anno, anno domini, antiquity, senility), стар (aged, back, grey headed, moth-eaten, old, stale, used, veteran), възрастен (adult, elderly, grey, grown, grown up, old). (various references)

Chinese 

白� � (hoary head). (various references)

Czech

staroba, stáří (age). (various references)

Danish

alderdom (senescence), ældre (elderly, seniors). (various references)

Dutch

ouderdom (age). (various references)

Finnish

vanhuus (oldness). (various references)

French

vieillesse (old). (various references)

German

alter (age, antiqueness, Hoar, seniority). (various references)

Greek 

γεράματα, γερατειά, γήρας. (various references)

Hebrew 

שיב�" (hoariness, white hair), קשישות (seniority), זק� ות (dotage, senility). (various references)

Hungarian

öregkor (declining years). (various references)

Italian

vecchiaia (age, eventide, Hoar, oldness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老年 , 老後 , 老境 , 老い (old person, the aged, the old), 老 (age, old people, the aged, the old), 高年 , 年波 (oncoming age), シルト岩 (seat for seniors and handicapped, siltstone, silver, silver fox, silver gray, silver market, silver phone, silver plan, silver single, silver tone, silver volunteer, silver wedding, Silver-On-Line, sylph). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おい (nephew, old person, the aged, the old), �"うね�" (age at one's death, future years, inlater years, light year), ろうきょう, ろうね�", ろう�", ろう (age, belvedere, bend over, comforting, labor, lookout, old people, puttingto work, striving, thanking, the aged, the old, toil, tower, trouble, turret, wax), シルバーエイジ , としなみ (oncoming age). (various references)

Manx

shenndiaght (elders, oldness), shenn eash, sheeloghe (generation, posterity). (various references)

Pig Latin

olday ageay.(various references)

Portuguese

velhice (age, eld, hoar, senescence). (various references)

Romanian

vârstã înaintatã, bãtrâneţe (caducity, consenescence, Hoar). (various references)

Russian 

старость (age, anility, anno, grey hairs, senility, the lees of life). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starački (senile). (various references)

Spanish

vejez (anno domini, Eld). (various references)

Swedish

ålderdom (age, declining years). (various references)

Thai

ช่วงหลังของชีวิต. (various references)

Turkish

yaşlılık (age, senescence, senile, senility), ihtiyarlık (decrepitude, dotage, senescence, senility). (various references)

Turkmen 

garrylyk (age). (various references)

Welsh

henaint. (various references)

geras. (various references)

aevi, aevo, aevum, cani, canis, canitiae, canitiem, cano, canos, canum, evi, senecta, senectam, senectus, senectute, senectutem, senectuti, senectutis, senium, vetustate. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gaoled, goaled.

-1 letter: glade, lodge, ogled.

-2 letters: aged, aloe, dago, dale, deal, doge, dole, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gaol, geld, glad, gled, goad, goal, gold, lade, lead, load, lode, loge, odea, ogle, olea.

-3 letters: ado, age, ago, ale, dag, dal, del, doe, dog, dol, ego, eld, gad, gae, gal, ged, gel, goa, god, lad, lag, lea.

+1 letter: decalog, galoped, geoidal, gloated.

+2 letters: anglepod, collaged, decalogs, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, foliaged, galloped, galopade, galoshed, gamboled, gatefold, gladsome, globated, goadlike, headlong, idealogy, longhead, overglad.

+3 letters: alongside, anglepods, cataloged, clangored, coleading, congealed, decalogue, delegator, dialogers, dialogued, dialogues, dodgeball, elongated, floodgate, gallopade, galopades, gambolled, gargoyled, gasholder, gatefolds, genocidal, girandole, gladsomer, gladstone, glamoured, idealogue, logaoedic, longheads, obligated, outglared, reloading.