Dictionary entry

The aged

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) သက်ကြီးရွယ်အို။

Definition

age /eÇdʒ / n [C,U] ၁။ (က) အသက္။ 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) အရြယ္။ အသက္အရြယ္။ 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) သက္တမ္း။ Geologists have calculated the age of the earth. ၂။ သက္တမ္း ရင့္ျခင္း။ ဇရာ။ အသက္။ the wisdom that comes with age ❍ His face was wrinkled with age. ❍ Fine wine improves with age. ၃။ ေခတ္။ the modern age/the nuclear age/the age of the microchip. ၄။ [C usu pl ] ( infml ) အၾကာႀကီး။ I waited (for) ages/an age. ❍ He left ages ago. ❍ It took (us) ages to find a place to park. v ၁။ (က) အိုသည္။ ရင့္ေရာ္သည္။ ႀကီးရင့္သည့္ လကၡဏာ ျပသည္။ 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) ႐ုပ္က် သည္။ အရြယ္က်သည္။ The illness has aged him terribly. ❍ I found her greatly aged. ၂။ ႏွစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ခံသည္။ allow wine to age ❍ age brandy in casks. ❏ aged adj ၁။ /eÇdʒd/ အသက္အရြယ္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ The boy was aged ten. ၂။ /'eÇdʒÇd/( fml ) အိုမင္းေသာ။ an aged man. ❏ the aged /'eÇdʒÇd/ n [pl] သက္ႀကီးရြယ္အို။ caring for the sick and the aged. ❏ age-group ( also age bracket) n အသက္အုပ္စု။ Only people in the 20-30 age bracket need apply. ❏ ageing (also aging ) n [U] အိုမင္းရင့္ေရာ္ျခင္း။ ဇရာ။ signs/effects of ageing. ❏ age-long adj (လူ႕) သမိုင္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ man's age-long struggle for freedom. ❏ age of consent n [sing] အသက္ေစ့ေသာ။ အရြယ္ ေရာက္ေသာ။ ❏ age-old adj ေရွးပေဝဏီ။ age-old customs /ceremonies. ❏ be / act your age [ IDM ] ( infml ) မကေလးႏွင့္။ ကေလး ကလား မလုပ္နဲ႔။ ❏ be / come of age [ IDM ] ၁။ အရြယ္ေရာက္သည္။ ၂။ ရင့္က်က္သည္။ a literary talent that has come of age. ❏ be of an age [ IDM ] ၁။ အရြယ္ေရာက္ၿပီ။ He's of an age when he ought to settle down. ၂။ သက္တူရြယ္တူ ျဖစ္သည္။ The two girls are (very much) of an age. ❏ do not look one's age [ IDM ] အရြယ္တင္သည္။ ႏုသည္။ She doesn't look her age at all. ❏ one's own age group သက္တူရြယ္တူ။ mix- with (people in) one's own age group. ❏ over age [ IDM ] အရြယ္လြန္ေသာ။ ❏ under age [ IDM ] အသက္မျပည့္ေသးေသာ။ You shouldn't sell cigarettes to teenagers who are under age/to under-age teenagers. -age suff ၁။ အေျခအေန။ ျဖစ္အင္။ bondage. ၂။ အစု။ အဖြဲ႕။ အတန္းအစား။ baggage ❍ peerage. ၃။ ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ။ (အ)မႈ။ breakage ❍ wastage. ၄။ (အ)ဖိုး။ (အ)ခ။ corkage ❍ postage. ၅။ ေနရာ။ ေဂဟာ။ anchorage ❍ orphanage. ၆။ ပမာဏ။ အတိုင္းအဆ။ mileage ❍ dosage.

Examples

  1. It was difficult to guess his age.
  2. The average age of the delegates was over 60.
  3. Children under the age of seven
  4. [reach the age of] : She’ll only inherit when she reaches the age of 18.
  5. [at/from the age of] : At the age of 10
  6. I went to live with my aunt.
  7. [at/from an early age] : The sisters have been playing music together from an early age.
  8. [at your/his/her etc age] : At her age
  9. she might be expected to take things easy.
  10. [of all/different ages] : The film is designed to appeal to people of all ages.
  11. [difference in age] : Her parents disapproved of the relationship because of the difference in age.
  12. [years of age] : He started work there at 14 years of age.
  13. The value of the furniture depends on its condition and age.
  14. [voting/retiring/school-leaving age] : Young people who have reached the voting age
  15. [raise/lower the age of something] : They plan to raise the age of retirement for women to 65.
  16. [under age] : He served wine to girls who were under age.
  17. [child-bearing/working age] : 15% of women of child-bearing age were found to have the infection.
  18. [of an age to do something] : Her two older sons were both of an age to be working.
  19. His face is starting to show signs of age.
  20. [with age] : With age
  21. your reactions get slower.
  22. Good wines improve with age.
  23. We live in a materialistic age.
  24. [age of] : It was an age of great intellectual excitement.
  25. [for ages] : She’s lived here for ages.
  26. [take/spend ages] : He took ages to answer the phone.
  27. We spent ages trying to print this out.
  28. [in ages] : For the first time in ages
  29. we sat down and talked.
  30. [ages ago] : The wedding was planned ages ago.
  31. [seem (like) ages] : After what seemed like ages
  32. the doctor came back.