Age
/eɪd͡ʒ/
Scrabble:4 ptsWWF:5 pts3 letters
Definition of Age
noun
- The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- One of the stages of life.
"the age of infancy"
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
"the age of consent; the age of discretion"
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
"the golden age; the age of Pericles"
verb
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
"Grief ages us."
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
"Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so."
- To categorize by age.
"One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
"He grew fat as he aged."
Anagrams of Age
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Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Age"
Age is a 3-letter word that scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "age" can be rearranged to form 1 other valid word.
Using "Age" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "age" is a low-scoring word.