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Age can be a noun or a verb.

age used as a noun:

  1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
  2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time.
    "What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?"
  3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
    "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age."
  4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
  5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
    "to come of age"
  6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
    "the age of consent"
  7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
    "the golden age"
  8. A great period in the history of the Earth.
  9. A century; the period of one hundred years.
  10. The people who live at a particular period.
  11. Hence, a generation.
    "There are three ages living in her house."
  12. A long time.
    "It's been an age since we last saw you."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

age used as a verb:

  1. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
    "Grief ages us."
  2. 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."
  3. To categorize by age.
    "One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable."
  4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
    "He grew fat as he aged."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is age?

As detailed above, 'age' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
  2. Noun usage: Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
  3. Noun usage: Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  4. Noun usage: to come of age
  5. Noun usage: he (or she) is of age
  6. Noun usage: the age of consent
  7. Noun usage: the age of discretion
  8. Noun usage: the golden age
  9. Noun usage: the age of Pericles
  10. Noun usage: There are three ages living in her house.
  11. Noun usage: It's been an age since we last saw you.
  12. Verb usage: Grief ages us.
  13. Verb usage: Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
  14. Verb usage: One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
  15. Verb usage: He grew fat as he aged.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of age are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of age, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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