Roget's Thesaurus

#128. Age

Nouns

age; oldness etc. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life. seniority, eldership; elders etc. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture. [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology.

Verbs

be aged etc. adj.; grow old, get old etc. adj.; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.

Adjectives

aged; old etc. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked with the crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting etc. (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time. older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn. turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal, etc. (ancient) 124; gerontic.

Phrases

give me a staff of honor for my age [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes [Lat.]; peu de gens savent elre vieux [Fr.]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Lat.] [Pliny the Younger]; old age is creeping on apace [Byron]; slow-consuming age [Gray]; the hoary head is a crown of glory [Proverbs xvi, 31]; the silver livery of advised age [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; to vanish in the chinks that Time has made [Rogers].