Synonyms for age
Another word for age is historic period, eld or years. Below are 10 synonyms and 30 related words across 8 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: ages.
1. noun: how long something has existed
2. noun: an era of history having some distinctive feature
- historic period
3. noun: a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
- eld
4. noun: a prolonged period of time
- years synonyms
- long time
5. noun: a late time of life
- years synonyms
- old age
- eld
- geezerhood
6. verb: begin to seem older; get older
7. verb: grow old or older
- get on synonyms
- mature synonyms
- maturate
- senesce
8. verb: make older
Antonyms
- rejuvenate
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- property synonyms
- mental age
- bone age
- developmental age
- fetal age
- chronological age
- fertilization age
- gestational age
- newness
- oldness
- youngness
- turn of the century
- era
- golden age
- literary period
- reign synonyms
- antiquity
- epoch
- time of life
- majority synonyms
- legal age
- drinking age
- voting age
- minority
- age of consent
- nonage
- period synonyms
- time period
- period of time
- blue moon
Age in word games
- Letters
- 3
- Scrabble
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 5
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble AGE
- Is AGE a word?
- Words starting with A
Questions people ask
What is another word for age?
You can say historic period, eld, years, long time or old age instead of age. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "how long something has existed".
What is the opposite of age?
The opposite of age is rejuvenate.
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