noun · A2

Age

AYJ/eɪdʒ/

Age is the number of years a person or thing has lived. How old are you? is more natural than What is your age? in everyday talk. At the age of 18 and under age are set phrases. An era or a period is a stretch of history, not a person’s years.

Meaning

How old a person or thing is.

Examples

“What is her age?”
“Children under the age of twelve go free.”
“He started driving at the age of seventeen.”

Good to know

at the age of + number. Everyday question: How old…?

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