adj
Suitable only for adults; mature.
n
A true numerical majority, more than 50% of the items being counted.
n
Alternative form of accelerated ageing. [A test that uses aggravated conditions (e.g. heat, humidity etc.) to speed up the normal ageing process of an item to see the long-term effects on it within a shorter period of time.]
n
An adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
n
A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children or other younger people).
n
(humorous) The state or quality of being an adult; majority.
adj
centred on adults (to the exclusion of children)
n
The state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood
adj
(informal, nonstandard) Characteristically like an adult
adj
(formal) Aged; at the age of.
n
(countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
n
The marketing to young children of items for older children and adults.
n
(anthropology) An organized, culturally defined social category of people with membership based on age; in some societies it is entered automatically when one reaches a certain age, while in others it is entered through an initiation rite and/or the payment of a fee.
n
(psychology) The age category such as "child", "young adult", "old person", etc. that is part of a person's self-identity.
v
(simile) Of a person, to age well; to look or become better as they become older.
n
(law) The age at which a person is legally considered to be mature enough to engage willingly in sexual intercourse, so that it is not a crime for someone else to have sex with the person.
n
(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of age of reason
n
The age at which a child is presumed to be able to judge the difference between right and wrong
n
(law) The age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are legally granted or recognized; i.e.; the age where a person ceases to be a minor legally and becomes a legal adult.
n
Alternative form of age of reason [(Roman Catholicism) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits.]
v
(euphemistic, politics) To die or retire.
n
A classification, applied to products, specifying a minimum age for a person using it
n
Mental reversion to a younger age, used in therapy, as a coping mechanism, or as a manifestation of a psychiatric issue.
n
(anthropology) An established social category or group consisting of people born during a certain time span who together move through a series of culturally defined age grades.
v
(transitive) To cause to become older; to imagine to be older (especially of a fictional character)
n
One who is the same age as another.
adj
(dialect, informal, dated) Getting on in years; fairly old.
adj
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
adj
(relative to past) Having existed for so great a period of time that its longevity cannot be expressed.
n
The type of an organism characteristic of a certain age
adj
(poetic) Alternative spelling of aged [Old.]
v
(Scotland, law) To act for another (as a law agent or solicitor).
n
(US, slang, dated) A very long time.
n
(rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
v
(UK) To be approximately the same age as.
adj
(informal) Mature, grown-up, old enough (with the implication that one can look after oneself and make one's own decisions).
adj
Alternative form of bottom-age [(Australia) Younger than the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore eligible to participate in its next season.]
adj
(Australia) Younger than the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore eligible to participate in its next season.
adj
Alternative form of bottom-age [(Australia) Younger than the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore eligible to participate in its next season.]
n
The age of an individual, measured in days, months and years from the time the individual was born, often used in psychometrics.
v
(idiomatic) To reach a specific age where one is legally considered to be an adult.
n
(idiomatic, US, colloquial) A very long time.
n
(colloquial) A very long time.
n
The activities that make up a person's normal life.
n
(idiomatic) A time period of years or more.
v
(transitive) To reduce the apparent age of.
n
(archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
n
One who is older than another.
n
The state of being an elder, or of being older; elderhood.
n
The state, quality, or condition of being an elder.
adj
Somewhat old; elderly.
adj
Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
adj
Of or belonging to a first family.
adj
Fully developed; adult
n
(rare) The state, quality, or condition of being full-grown; adulthood; maturity.
adj
Having reached complete biological maturity
n
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
adj
(medicine, colloquial) Geriatric.
adj
Of or pertaining to old age or the elderly.
adj
Centered around old people.
n
A term, title, or name used for an old person (or set of people).
n
An abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.
n
Alternative spelling of god tier [The highest level; eliteness]
adj
Relating to the elderly or retired.
n
(idiomatic) A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress.
n
Someone in the golden age
n
(idiomatic, euphemistic) Old age; especially, the leisure years in later life after one has retired from employment.
n
(obsolete) Great age; long life, longevity.
n
(Britain) the purchasing power of or the business generated by elderly people
n
(US regional) A grown-up; an adult.
adj
(US) Of a person: adult.
adj
Alternative form of grown-up [Adult, physically mature.]
adj
(US, slang, vulgar) grown-up; adult; often used in reproach of an adult's immaturity, or, conversely, in assertion of maturity.
adj
Adult, physically mature.
n
An imaginary point given (to younger persons) for individual behaviour that characterize life as an adult.
n
Alternative form of grownupness [(informal) Adulthood; maturity.]
n
Alternative form of grownupness [(informal) Adulthood; maturity.]
adj
Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish
adj
Alternative form of grown-up [Adult, physically mature.]
n
(informal) Adulthood; maturity.
n
(Australia) a health indicator age in comparison to a person's true age, based on a survey of diet, exercise, and other factors.
n
A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
n
A relatively brief period when a new leader is given greater leeway with respect to changes he or she wishes to make.
n
(rare) A particularly large majority.
adj
Highly mature; having reached a late stage of maturity or development.
adj
(informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
n
Synonym of age of majority
v
To look as old as one actually is.
adj
Of full legal age, having attained majority.
n
(dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.
n
The process of becoming mature.
adj
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
n
The property of being maturescent.
n
The state of being mature, ready or ripe. prime state of productibility and self expression.
n
(by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
n
(psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over.
adj
Alternative spelling of mid-adolescent [being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence]
n
the period of life between youth and old age; midlife
n
The quality of being middle-aged; middle age.
adj
Alternative spelling of middle-aged [of, or relating to middle age; neither old nor young]
n
The period or condition of middle age, especially as a time of transition comparable to adolescence.
n
The middle period of one's life.
n
Alternative spelling of mid-life crisis [(psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over.]
n
(law) A vacation between two terms of a court.
n
The state or condition of being an octogenarian.
adj
Nonstandard form of old. [Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.]
adj
Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
n
The latter part of life, the part of life after one's prime.
n
(informal) The old people of a particular place or social situation.
adj
Synonym of long in the tooth (“old, aged”)
adj
(Australia) (applied to plants and animals) Of exceptional size or age.
n
(social work, slang) A person aged 75 or older.
n
(euphemistic) An old person.
n
The state or condition of being old; the stage of life where one is advanced in age; old age
adj
(idiomatic, mildly euphemistic) Old; advanced in age.
n
Organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. Outdoor education programs often involve residential or journey-based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges such as hiking, climbing, canoeing, rope courses, and group games.
n
(idiomatic) The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment.
adj
Alternative spelling of overage [Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.]
n
A large majority; more than a majority.
n
The informally observed tendency of mature or elderly scientists, who apparently have outlived their most productive years of research and similar practical work, to discontinue or decrease their participation in such activity, in favour of pursuing, and often publishing, philosophical theories or speculations. Commonly the implication is that such works are beyond the authors' recognised field of competence, and, as a result, typically of disappointing value or standard.
adj
Having undergone photoaging.
adj
Marked by the physical and mental characteristics of old age, though not old in years.
n
(psychology) A situation resembling the mid-life crisis but taking place earlier, when roughly a quarter of one's life has passed, typically in one's twenties or thirties.
n
(biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
adj
Of, or relating to old age.
n
The state or period of being a senior; old age.
n
A growth in the elderly population, having the potential to overwhelm society (due to new demands in areas such as healthcare) if society is not prepared.
n
(Canada, US) Synonym of absolute majority: More than half of the item being counted.
n
(nonstandard) The state of being highly skilled, the state of being skillful.
n
The condition of being subadult
n
Alternative form of supermajority. [(chiefly Canada, US) A majority of the items being counted that reaches some preset threshold significantly greater than 50 percent, such as two thirds.]
adj
In which the elderly make up a large proportion of the population.
n
(chiefly Canada, US) A majority of the items being counted that reaches some preset threshold significantly greater than 50 percent, such as two thirds.
n
(cooking) Alternative form of supreme [The highest point.]
n
(UK) The age after retirement but while one is still young enough to be active; young old age.
n
(uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
adj
(informal, humorous) One's current age (to the day).
adj
Alternative form of top-age [(Australia) Of the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore ineligible to participate in its next season.]
adj
(Australia) Of the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore ineligible to participate in its next season.
adj
Alternative form of top-age [(Australia) Of the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore ineligible to participate in its next season.]
adj
Alternative spelling of top tier [Belonging to the top tier: elite, prestigious.]
adj
Alternative form of top-age [(Australia) Of the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore ineligible to participate in its next season.]
adj
Alternative form of top-age [(Australia) Of the oldest age permitted to participate in a competition, and therefore ineligible to participate in its next season.]
adj
Archaic spelling of update.
adj
(of an older person) healthy and ageing gracefully
n
Old people who are in good health
adj
Of the age of one year.
adj
(in combination) Of a specified number of years.
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