age of consent

US pronunciation

American soundage of consent

ageofconsent

Syllables: 3 syllables
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Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

age - of - consent -> age of consent

Myanmar meaning

(n) အသက်စေ့သော။ အရွယ် ရောက်သော။

Full entry

age /eÇdʒ / n [C,U]

၁။ (က) အသက်။ What age is he? ❍ He's six years of age. ❍ Their ages are six and ten. ❍ At what age did she retire? ❍ I left school at the age of 18. ❍ She died at an early age. (ခ) အရွယ်။ အသက်အရွယ်။ Anyone can enter the contest–there's no age limit (ie no one will be regarded as too old or too young). ❍ We have a son your age. ❍ old/middle age ❍ reach voting age ❍ When I was your age. ❍ (ဂ) သက်တမ်း။ Geologists have calculated the age of the earth.
၂။ သက်တမ်း ရင့်ခြင်း။ ဇရာ။ အသက်။ the wisdom that comes with age ❍ His face was wrinkled with age. ❍ Fine wine improves with age.
၃။ ခေတ်။ the modern age/the nuclear age/the age of the microchip.
၄။ [C usu pl ] (infml ) အကြာကြီး။ I waited (for) ages/an age. ❍ He left ages ago. ❍ It took (us) ages to find a place to park.
v
၁။ (က) အိုသည်။ ရင့်ရော်သည်။ ကြီးရင့်သည့် လက္ခဏာ ပြသည်။ an ageing film star ❍ an ageing population (ie one with an increasing number of old people) ❍ He's aged a lot recently. ❍ She's aging gracefully. (ခ) ရုပ်ကျ သည်။ အရွယ်ကျသည်။ The illness has aged him terribly. ❍ I found her greatly aged.
၂။ နှစ်ချို့ခံသည်။ allow wine to age ❍ age brandy in casks.
❏ aged adj
၁။ /eÇdʒd/ အသက်အရွယ်ရှိ [သော]။ The boy was aged ten.
၂။ /'eÇdʒÇd/(fml ) အိုမင်းသော။ an aged man.
❏ the aged /'eÇdʒÇd/ n [pl] သက်ကြီးရွယ်အို။ caring for the sick and the aged.
❏ age-group ( also age bracket) n အသက်အုပ်စု။ Only people in the 20-30 age bracket need apply.
❏ ageing (also aging ) n [U] အိုမင်းရင့်ရော်ခြင်း။ ဇရာ။ signs/effects of ageing.
❏ age-long adj (လူ့) သမိုင်းတစ်လျှောက်။ man's age-long struggle for freedom.
❏ age of consent n [sing] အသက်စေ့သော။ အရွယ် ရောက်သော။
❏ age-old adj ရှေးပဝေဏီ။ age-old customs /ceremonies.
❏ be / act your age [IDM ] (infml ) မကလေးနှင့်။ ကလေး ကလား မလုပ်နဲ့။
❏ be / come of age [IDM ]
၁။ အရွယ်ရောက်သည်။
၂။ ရင့်ကျက်သည်။ a literary talent that has come of age.
❏ be of an age [IDM ]
၁။ အရွယ်ရောက်ပြီ။ He's of an age when he ought to settle down.
၂။ သက်တူရွယ်တူ ဖြစ်သည်။ The two girls are (very much) of an age.
❏ do not look one's age [IDM ] အရွယ်တင်သည်။ နုသည်။ She doesn't look her age at all.
❏ one's own age group သက်တူရွယ်တူ။ mix- with (people in) one's own age group.
❏ over age [IDM ] အရွယ်လွန်သော။
❏ under age [IDM ] အသက်မပြည့်သေးသော။ You shouldn't sell cigarettes to teenagers who are under age/to under-age teenagers.

-age suff

၁။ အခြေအနေ။ ဖြစ်အင်။ bondage.
၂။ အစု။ အဖွဲ့။ အတန်းအစား။ baggage ❍ peerage.
၃။ ဖြစ်ပေါ်မှု။ (အ)မှု။ breakage ❍ wastage.
၄။ (အ)ဖိုး။ (အ)ခ။ corkage ❍ postage.
၅။ နေရာ။ ဂေဟာ။ anchorage ❍ orphanage.
၆။ ပမာဏ။ အတိုင်းအဆ။ mileage ❍ dosage.

More examples

It was difficult to guess his age.
The average age of the delegates was over 60.
Children under the age of seven
[reach the age of] : She’ll only inherit when she reaches the age of 18.
[at/from the age of] : At the age of 10, I went to live with my aunt.
[at/from an early age] : The sisters have been playing music together from an early age.
[at your/his/her etc age] : At her age, she might be expected to take things easy.
[of all/different ages] : The film is designed to appeal to people of all ages.
[difference in age] : Her parents disapproved of the relationship because of the difference in age.
[years of age] : He started work there at 14 years of age.
The value of the furniture depends on its condition and age.
[voting/retiring/school-leaving age] : Young people who have reached the voting age
[raise/lower the age of something] : They plan to raise the age of retirement for women to 65.
[under age] : He served wine to girls who were under age.
[child-bearing/working age] : 15% of women of child-bearing age were found to have the infection.
[of an age to do something] : Her two older sons were both of an age to be working.
His face is starting to show signs of age.
[with age] : With age, your reactions get slower.
Good wines improve with age.
We live in a materialistic age.
[age of] : It was an age of great intellectual excitement.
[for ages] : She’s lived here for ages.
[take/spend ages] : He took ages to answer the phone.
We spent ages trying to print this out.

Synonyms

era, period, time, times, epoch, adolescence, adulthood, advance in years, aeon, become older, blue moon, boyhood, century, childhood, date, day, decline, deteriorate, develop, dotage, duration, elderliness, generation, get along, get on, girlhood, grow, grow feeble, grow old, grow older, grow up, infancy, interim, interval, life, lifetime, majority, mature, maturity, mellow, middle age, milestone, millennium, old age, oldness, phase, push, put mileage on, ripen, senility, seniority, span, stage, stage of development, time of life, wane, wear and tear, youth

Antonyms

adolescence, cease, childhood, continuation, decrease, halt, increase, infancy, lessen, rise, stop, youth