age
US /eɪdʒ/
Definition
how long something has existed
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Visitors of any age are welcome to join the guided museum tour.
Synonyms
- eraa period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- periodan amount of time
- epocha period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Collocations
- Easy at an early ageindicating a specific point in time, place, or degree an early age
- Medium statutory retirement agedescribing statutory retirement age (relating to or created by statutes)
- Hard herald a new digital ageto herald a new digital age, meaning to foreshadow or presage
- Very Hard come of age as an industry titanto come of age as an industry titan, meaning to move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
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