dotagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdəʊ.tɪdʒ/us/ˈdoʊ.t̬ɪdʒ/old age, especially with some loss of mental ability
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The elderly
- a ripe old age idiom
- aged
- ageism
- agism
- centenarian
- crock
- geriatric
- geriatrics
- gerontology
- old
- old age
- old age pensioner
- old boy
- old girl
- senile
- senior citizen
- septuagenarian
- seventies
- sexagenarian
- the gray dollar
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Examples from literature
- But he did not sink into dotage.
- Her dotage now I do begin to pity.
- In that use of the word "old," far from us is all thought of dotage or decay.
- Now I am getting into my dotage and look on the dark side of everything.
- She sits there the very image of dotage.