declining age

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• age — n 1 Age, senility, senescence, dotage are comparable when they denote the period in one’s life when one is old in years and declining in body or mind or both. Age is now usually replaced by old age except in literary use {age cannot wither her… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• age — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Old age Nouns 1. age, years, oldness; life expectancy, life span; longevity, length of years; gerontology, geriatrics; gerontocracy; ageism. 2. (maturity) adulthood, man or womanhood, maturity; legal or… …   English dictionary for students

• Age — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Age >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 age age Sgm: N 1 oldness oldness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 old age old age advanced age golden years Sgm: N 1 senility senility senescence Sgm …   English dictionary for students

• declining — /dəˈklaɪnɪng/ (say duh kluyning) adjective 1. going down: the declining sun. 2. diminishing in strength, vigour, intensity, etc.: a declining force. –phrase 3. one s declining years, old age …  

• age — 1. noun 1) he is 35 years of age his wife is the same age Syn: number of years, length of life; stage of life, generation, age group 2) her hearing had deteriorated with age Syn: elderliness, old age, oldness …   Thesaurus of popular words

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• age — n 1. lifetime, generation, duration, stage of life; year. 2. maturity, majority, seniority, adulthood; old age, agedness, oldness, elderliness, declining years; senescence, senectitude, senility, anility, caducity, dotage, decrepitude. 3. epoch,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• someone's declining years — someone’s declining years phrase the years of someone’s life when they are old and becoming weaker In her declining years, she would often talk of him fondly. Thesaurus: old age and relating to old agehyponym Main entry: declining …   Useful english dictionary

• Islamic Golden Age — The Islamic Golden Age, also sometimes known as the Islamic Renaissance, [Joel L. Kraemer (1992), Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam , p. 1 148, Brill Publishers, ISBN 9004072594.] was traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th… …   Wikipedia

• old age — [n] latter part of animate life advancing years*, age, agedness, autumn of life*, caducity, debility, declining years*, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, evening of life*, feebleness, golden age*, golden years*, infirmity, second childhood*,… …   New thesaurus