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Definition of aged :
1. Belonging to old age.
2. Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
3. of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (` aged' pronounced as one syllable); " mature well- aged cheeses"
4. Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
Synonyms:
patriarchal, of age, time-honored, corned, immemorial, vulcanised, gray, senile, olden, time-worn, preserved, remote, worn, older, elder, vulcanized, recovered, cured, decrepit, mellow, new, senior, youth, sr., healed, fourth-year, hoary, advanced
aged (part of speech: verb)
old, ancient, superannuated, grew old, endured, developed, geriatric, deteriorated, grown old, elderly, durable, ripe, mellowed, octogenarian, ripened, vintage, lasted, seasoned, mature, matured, venerable, declined
old (part of speech: adjective)
primeval, archaic, primitive, primordial, antique, paleolithic, antiquated, antediluvian
Usage examples:
- He had aged considerable since she last saw him. - "The Pioneers", Katharine Susannah Prichard.
- During all this time a middle- aged woman had been sitting on a stool beside the bargain counter. - "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908", Lucy Maud Montgomery.
- Close as his heels followed the Bishop of Orvietto and the aged Stephen Colonna. - "Rienzi", Edward Bulwer Lytton.