1
: the fact of being old
She died of old age.
2
: the time of life when a person is old
He's getting sweeter in his old age.
: of, for, or relating to old people
an old-age home
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Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
Death is rarely physically dignified, and visibly withering from old age in front of the entire world is perhaps one of the heaviest crosses a pope must bear.
—Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Dudek now heads the 58,000-employee agency, which oversees the nation’s old-age and disability entitlement programs, after the former acting commissioner, Michelle King, clashed with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over access to Social Security beneficiary data.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
From cradle to old age, this man and the Republican agenda is devastating for women.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
Death is rarely physically dignified, and visibly withering from old age in front of the entire world is perhaps one of the heaviest crosses a pope must bear.
—Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
What’s new is that as the population ages, mandatory spending on old-age insurance has soared.
—Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Dudek now heads the 58,000-employee agency, which oversees the nation’s old-age and disability entitlement programs, after the former acting commissioner, Michelle King, clashed with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over access to Social Security beneficiary data.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Old age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20age. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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