ager

[ ey-jer ]

/ ˈeɪ dʒər /

noun

Often Ager . a person living in a certain historical age: a Gilded Ager;Stone Agers.

Often Ager . a person who embraces a certain cultural movement: New Agers.

a person in a certain period or stage of human life.See also golden ager.

a thing that ages something: Sunlight is a skin ager.

a worker who inspects electric lamps.

an apparatus filled with steam through which dyed cloth is passed in order to fix the dye.

a worker who stabilizes the electrical properties of a device by passing a current through it.

Origin of ager

First recorded in 1880–85; age + -er¹

Words nearby ager

age of consent, age of discretion, Age of Reason, age-old, age-proof, ager, ageratum, Agesilaus II, age spot, age spots, ageusia

Example sentences from the Web for ager

This ager publicus was leased by the censors to farmers (aratores) who paid rent (vectigal) for it.
Helps to Latin Translation at Sight|Edmund Luce
One lady had "just broke the ager on-ter her by sax-fax tea, mix'd with Colombo."
The Puddleford Papers,|H. H. Riley
The nation had its folkland, its ager publicus, the property of no one man but of the whole state.
William the Conqueror|Edward Augustus Freeman
First as to the whole territory or ager occupied by the village community or township.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm

It was then determined by the Emperor Vespasian that the ager publicus of Abonia should be colonized.
Annals of a Fortress|E. Viollet-le-Duc

单词	ager
释义	ager [ ey-jer ] / ˈeɪ dʒər / noun Often Ager . a person living in a certain historical age: a Gilded Ager;Stone Agers. Often Ager . a person who embraces a certain cultural movement: New Agers. a person in a certain period or stage of human life.See also golden ager. a thing that ages something: Sunlight is a skin ager. a worker who inspects electric lamps. an apparatus filled with steam through which dyed cloth is passed in order to fix the dye. a worker who stabilizes the electrical properties of a device by passing a current through it. Origin of ager First recorded in 1880–85; age + -er¹ Words nearby ager age of consent, age of discretion, Age of Reason, age-old, age-proof, ager, ageratum, Agesilaus II, age spot, age spots, ageusia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ager This ager publicus was leased by the censors to farmers (aratores) who paid rent (vectigal) for it. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight\|Edmund Luce One lady had "just broke the ager on-ter her by sax-fax tea, mix'd with Colombo." The Puddleford Papers,\|H. H. Riley The nation had its folkland, its ager publicus, the property of no one man but of the whole state. William the Conqueror\|Edward Augustus Freeman First as to the whole territory or ager occupied by the village community or township. The English Village Community\|Frederic Seebohm It was then determined by the Emperor Vespasian that the ager publicus of Abonia should be colonized. Annals of a Fortress\|E. Viollet-le-Duc
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