Your old age is the period of years towards the end of your life.
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
Synonyms: declining years, age, senility, advancing years More Synonyms of old age
2. uncountable noun
Old age is the quality or state of being old and near the end of one's life.
He is unable to travel much because of old age.
old age in British English
(əʊld eɪdʒ)
noun
1.
the period when someone is old and perhaps near the end of their life
We are not saving enough for our old age.
If you keep fit, you can enjoy life well into old age.
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
2.
the quality or state of being old and near the end of life
We tend to consider old age as a social problem.
He is unable to travel much because of old age.
He died of old age.
She died of extreme old age.
at the ripe old age of 59
Elephants can live to the ripe old age of 70.
old age in American English
the advanced years of life, esp. human life, when strength and vigor decline
see also middle age
Examples of 'old age' in a sentence
old age
Apart from growing to a ripe old age, the locals were also in great health, he said.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Why are we so grim about old age?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He fears he will need to sell his house to make ends meet in old age.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She lived to a ripe old age.
Jan Fennell FRIENDS FOR LIFE (2003)
From those ending life too young to others who in old age have life yet to live.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is something inspiring about vigour in old age.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
All the way to a ripe old age.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Coming to a working life at an older age is difficult.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It probably died of old age as much as anything.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Are you worried about your old age?
The Sun (2006)
First, staying fit is one of the most significant ways of enjoying old age.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They are talking about life, not old age and not illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Their homes have been their security, and they are borrowing against their properties to enjoy their old age.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If people are to enjoy their old age without needing years of expensive nursing care it is essential to find the clues to healthy longevity.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Care in old age is the one huge cost that people are unable to insure themselves against, collectively or individually.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You can look forward to a much happier old age than she is experiencing - but only if you act now.
Shapiro, Jean Get the Best out of the Rest of Your Life (1990)
Quotations
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. I regret a little, would change still lessRobert BrowningAndrea del Sarto
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the lightDylan ThomasDo not go gentle into that good night
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a manLeon TrotskyDiary in Exile
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myselfEubie Blake
In other languages
old age
British English: old age NOUN
Your old age is the period of years towards the end of your life.
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
American English: old age
Brazilian Portuguese: velhice
Chinese: 晚年
European Spanish: vejez
French: vieillesse
German: Alter
Italian: vecchiaia
Japanese: 老年期
Korean: 노년
European Portuguese: velhice
Latin American Spanish: vejez
Chinese translation of 'old age'
old age
n(u)
(= state) 老年 (lǎonián)
(= time of life) 晚年 (wǎnnián)
(noun)
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
Synonyms
declining years
age
Perhaps he has grown wiser with age.
senility
He was showing unmistakable signs of senility.
advancing years
dotage
He's spending his dotage in a riverside cottage.
Third Age
senescence
Anno Domini (informal)
eld (archaic)
elderliness
agedness
autumn or evening of your life
Opposites
youth
,
childhood
,
adolescence
,
early life
,
immaturity
,
young days
,
juvenescence
Quotations
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. I regret a little, would change still less [Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto]Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light [Dylan Thomas – Do not go gentle into that good night]Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man [Leon Trotsky – Diary in Exile]If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself [Eubie Blake]