old age
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old age
noun
the last period of human life, now often considered to be the years after 65.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English
1300–50; Middle English
Related forms
old-age, adjective
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old age
in human beings, the final stage of the normal life span. Definitions of old age are not consistent from the standpoints of biology, demography (conditions of mortality and morbidity), employment and retirement, and sociology. For statistical and public administrative purposes, however, old age is frequently defined as 60 or 65 years of age or older
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Old age
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example sentences
These are the workers that are going to care for you and provide their taxes to you in your old age.
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day.
And they settle into an old age made comfortable by the warm glow of self-satisfaction.
Understanding how they work may reveal the keys to extending human life span while banishing diseases of old age.
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