aged
/'eidʤid/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Having lived for a long time; old: Refers to a person, animal, or sometimes a thing that is advanced in years.
- Having reached a desired or final condition through maturing: Used to describe substances like wine, cheese, or tobacco that have been kept under specific conditions to develop flavor or character.
- Having attained a specific age: Used to indicate the exact number of years old someone or something is.
Noun:
- (The aged): Old people collectively.
Usage
- As an adjective (pronounced as two syllables: /ˈeɪ.dʒɪd/):
- Used before a noun to describe an elderly person or thing: an aged man, an aged tree.
- Used after a linking verb like 'be' to describe the state of being old: He is now quite aged.
- As an adjective (pronounced as one syllable: /eɪdʒd/):
- Used before a noun, often in combination with a number, to mean 'of the age of': a woman aged forty.
- Used to describe matured products: aged cheddar, aged beef.
- As a noun (pronounced as two syllables: /ˈeɪ.dʒɪd/):
- Used with the definite article 'the' to refer to elderly people as a group: caring for the aged.
Examples
- Adjective (elderly):
- They built a ramp to help the aged professor enter the building.
- The aged oak tree had stood in the village square for centuries.
- Adjective (of a specific age):
- The program is for children aged six to twelve.
- Police are looking for a man aged about thirty.
- Adjective (matured):
- The flavor of aged whiskey is much smoother.
- She prefers aged Gouda cheese for its crystalline texture.
- Noun:
- The new policy aims to improve healthcare for the aged.
Advanced Usage
- "Well-aged": Emphasizes that something has been matured for a sufficient and beneficial period.
- The well-aged port was served after dinner.
- "The young and the aged": A phrase contrasting two demographic groups.
- The disease can affect both the young and the aged.
Variants and Related Words
- Age (n/v): The length of time someone or something has existed / To grow old.
- What is your age? / Fine wine ages in oak barrels.
- Aging (adj): The process of becoming older.
- The aging population is a global trend.
- Age-old (adj): Very old; having existed for a long time. (This is a compound word listed separately as per instruction).
- It's an age-old tradition.
Synonyms
- Elderly: (adj) Polite and common word for old people.
- Senior: (adj/n) Older, often used in formal contexts like "senior citizen."
- Mature: (adj) Fully developed, especially used for things like cheese or wine.
Antonyms
- Young: Having lived or existed for only a short time.
- New: Not existing before; recently made.
- Unaged / Fresh: Not having undergone a maturing process (e.g., ).
Related Phrases
- Advanced in years: A formal way to say 'old' or 'aged.'
- He was a gentleman advanced in years.
- Of a certain age: A polite or vague way to say someone is no longer young.
- The club is popular with women of a certain age.
Adjective
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
- of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
- mature well-aged cheeses
- having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
- aged ten
- ten years of age
- at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
- aged rocks
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
- aged members of the society
- elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
- senior citizen
Noun
- people who are old collectively
- special arrangements were available for the aged