years

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noun

1. a late time of life (Freq. 19)
- old age is not for sissies
- he's showing his years
- age hasn't slowed him down at all
- a beard white with eld
- on the brink of geezerhood
• Syn:
old age, age, eld, geezerhood
• Derivationally related forms:
geezer (for: geezerhood), age (for: age)
• Hypernyms:
time of life
• Hyponyms:
dotage, second childhood, senility
• Part Meronyms:
sixties, mid-sixties, seventies, mid-seventies, eighties,
mid-eighties, nineties, mid-nineties
2. a prolonged period of time (Freq. 6)
- we've known each other for ages
- I haven't been there for years and years
• Syn:
long time, age
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Hyponyms:
month of Sundays, eon, aeon, blue moon, year dot
3. the time during which someone's life continues
- the monarch's last days
- in his final years
• Syn:
days
• Hypernyms:
life