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Definition: Old Age |
Old AgeNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. The stage in the development of a stream at which erosion is decreasing in vigor and efficiency, and aggradation becomes dominant as the gradient is reduced. It is characterized by a broad open valley with a flood plain that may be 15 times the width of the meander belt; numerous oxbows, bayous, and swamps; a sluggish current; and slow erosion, effected chiefly by mass-wasting at valley sides b. The final stage of the cycle of erosion of a landscape or region, in which the surface has been reduced almost to base level and the landforms are marked by simplicity of form and subdued relief. It is characterized by a few large meandering streams flowing sluggishly across broad flood plains, separated by faintly swelling hills, and having dendritic distributaries; and by peneplanation c. A hypothetical stage in the development of a coast, characterized by a wide wave-cut platform, a faintly sloping sea cliff pushed far inland, and a coastal region approaching peneplanation. The stage is probably a theoretical abstraction, since it is doubtful whether stability of sealevel is maintained long enough for the land to be so reduced. (references) |
Statistics | One of eight functions of social protection distinguished in the ESSPROS. Income maintenance and support in cash or kind(except health care)in connection with old age. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. Euphemisms for older people include advanced adult, elderly, and senior or senior citizen. Older people have limited regenerative abilities and are more prone to disease, syndromes, and sickness than other adults.In most developed societies, adults are declared to be "old" when they reach the ages of 60-65, and secure their pension entitlement. Some governments offer Old age pensions, and redeemable Retirement Savings Plans.
Retirement is a typical lifestyle embraced by advanced adults, marking the end of a lifetime of work.
In the late 20th century and early 21st century, advances in nutrition and health care have extended the period of good health as well as extending the overall life expectancy.
Pensions provision relied upon life expectancy at retirement being short: this change has led to the pensions crisis.
See also:
- actuary
- aging
- death
- seven ages of man
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Old age."
Synonyms: Old AgeSynonyms: age (n), eld (n), geezerhood (n), years (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
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Crosswords: Old Age |
| English words defined with "old age": adult tooth, agedness, Ancientry ♦ black morel ♦ Caducity, conic morel ♦ debility, decrepitude, dilapidation, dodderer, dotage, dote ♦ Elli, emphysema ♦ factually, feebleness, frailness, frailty ♦ infirmity ♦ middle age, Morchella angusticeps, Morchella conica ♦ narrowhead morel ♦ permanent tooth, Prigidity, pulmonary emphysema ♦ second childhood, Senectitude, senescence, senility, so, superannuate ♦ tottering, tottery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "old age": Abishag, Altar, Alternative Measures of income ♦ Calm, Chair-days, Crillon ♦ Decalcification, Pathologic, Delias, Drivelling Dotage ♦ FRITCHIE ♦ Grangousier, Grinders ♦ Hassal-Henle corpuscules, Hassal-Henle warts ♦ MALT, Medicare Part A ♦ national insurance contribution ♦ Old Age Restored to Youth, Osteoarthritis, Hip ♦ social security contribution, Storks' Law. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "old age": Senectitude. (references) |
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Screenplays | 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) | |
Clever | 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) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Old Age Pension (1935) | |
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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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| Author | Quotation |
Clarke | In old age life's shadows are meeting eternity's day. |
Marcus T. Cicero | Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. |
Maurice Chevalier | Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. |
Mencius | In clothes we value novelty; in men, old age. |
Oscar Wilde | The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | All diseases run into one. Old age. |
Sophocles | No falsehood lingers on into old age. |
| And proud men in old age learn to be wise. | |
William Hazlitt | The worst old age is that of the mind. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | 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) |
United Nations | 1948 | 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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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | 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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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We all face sickness someday, and some more often than we wish, and old age as well. |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "old age". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bul | N/A | Biblical | Old age |
| Kedemoth | N/A | Biblical | Old age |
| Obal | N/A | Biblical | Inconvenience of old age |
| Sabeans | N/A | Biblical | Old age |
| Sabtah | N/A | Biblical | Old age |
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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. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
old age | 110 |
old age joke | 66 |
old age security | 51 |
old age make up | 28 |
old age home | 25 |
old age humor | 15 |
old age sex | 15 |
old age spot | 5 |
sex in old age | 3 |
old age pension uk | 2 |
old age in dog | 2 |
old age porn | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "old age"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | geras. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aevi, aevo, aevum, cani, canis, canitiae, canitiem, cano, canos, canum, evi, senecta, senectam, senectus, senectute, senectutem, senectuti, senectutis, senium, vetustate. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Su de apeleush proV touV pateraV sou met' eirhnhV tafeiV en ghrei kalw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace sepultus in senectute bona |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þu soðlice forðfærst on sibbe, þonne ðin tima cymð on godre ylde to þinum ealdfæderum. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thow forsothe shalt go to thi fadres in pees, biried also in god eld. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Neuerthelesse thou shalt goo vnto thi fathers in peace ad shalt be buried when thou art of a good age: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug ikaw moadto sa imong mga ginikanan nga may pagpakigdait, ug igalubong ka sa pagkatigulang kaayo. |
| Croatian | A ti æeš k ocima svojim u miru poæi, u sretnoj starosti bit æeš sahranjen. |
| Danish | Men du skal fare til dine Fædre i Fred og blive jordet i en god Alderdom. |
| Dutch | En gij zult tot uw vaderen gaan met vrede; gij zult in goeden ouderdom begraven worden. |
| Finnish | Mutta sinä saat mennä isiesi tykö rauhassa, ja sinut haudataan päästyäsi korkeaan ikään. |
| French | Toi, tu iras en paix vers tes pères, tu seras enterré après une heureuse vieillesse. |
| German | Und du sollst fahren zu deinen Vätern mit Frieden und in gutem Alter begraben werden. |
| Haitian Creole | Kanta ou menm, ou pral mouri ak kè poze, ou pral jwenn zansèt ou yo ki mouri deja. Wi, anvan ou antre anba tè, wa viv lontan san ankenn pwoblèm. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau sendiri akan mencapai usia yang tinggi; engkau akan mati dengan tenang, lalu dikuburkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka engkau akan kembali kepada segala nenek moyangmu dengan selamat dan engkau akan dikuburkan pada masa cukup tuamu. |
| Italian | Quanto a te, andrai in pace presso i tuoi padri; sarai sepolto dopo una vecchiaia felice. |
| Maori | Ko koe ia ka haere marie ki ou matua; ka pai tou koroheketanga, a tanumia noatia koe. |
| Norwegian | Men du skal fare til dine fedre i fred og bli begravet i en god alderdom. |
| Portuguese | Tu, porém, irás em paz para teus pais; em boa velhice serás sepultado. |
| Rumanian | Tu vei merge kn pace la pqrinyii tqi; vei fi kngropat dupq o bqtrkneyq fericitq. |
| Spanish | Pero tú irás a tus padres en paz y serás sepultado en buena vejez. |
| Swedish | Men du själv skall gå till dina fäder i frid och bliva begraven i en god ålder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gaoled, goaled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-o" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-o" | |
+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. | |
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