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old age
noun
- the last period of human life, now often considered to be the years after 65.
Other Word Forms
- DZ- adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of old age1
Example Sentences
However, the past couple of weeks should disabuse anyone of the hope that they can wait for old age or the law to stop Trump.
Legendary Swedish screen siren Greta Garbo declared in 1941 at the ripe old age of 36 that she would be taking a "temporary" retirement.
They enter old age with little or no savings, medical problems without adequate coverage, a necessity to work in order to eat and have a place to live, and, unsurprisingly, increasing rates of bankruptcy filings.
The estimates could change though, and the life expectancy figures are for populations - they do not mean that each individual person will live into old age.
While dementia is often seen as a disease of old age, about 5% of people with dementia are classed as having young-onset dementia.
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