ager

[ ey-jer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Often Ager. a person living in a certain historical age:
a Gilded Ager;
Stone Agers.
Often Ager. a person who embraces a certain cultural movement:
New Agers.
a person in a certain period or stage of human life. golden ager.
a thing that ages something:
Sunlight is a skin ager.
a worker who inspects electric lamps.
an apparatus filled with steam through which dyed cloth is passed in order to fix the dye.
a worker who stabilizes the electrical properties of a device by passing a current through it.

Origin of ager¹

First recorded in 1880–85; age ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

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