age

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

the age of infancy

the age of consent; the age of discretion

the golden age; the age of Pericles

the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch

Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.

There are three ages living in her house.

It’s been an age since we last saw you.

What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

to come of age; she is now of age

Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.