- be someone's age
- be someone's age or be the same age as someone
to be as old as someone
She's the same age as me.
When you're my age, you'll understand.
English dictionary. 2014.
be someone's age
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be someone's age — be someone’s age be the same age as someone phrase to be as old as someone She’s the same age as me. When you’re my age, you’ll understand. Thesaurus: general words for age and describing someone s agehyponym Main entry: age … Useful english dictionary
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age — [[t]e͟ɪʤ[/t]] ♦ ages, ageing, aging, aged (The spelling aging is also used, mainly in American English.) 1) N VAR Your age is the number of years that you have lived. She has a nephew who is just ten years of age... At the age of sixteen he… … English dictionary
age — /eɪdʒ / (say ayj) noun 1. the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: his age is 20 years; a tree of unknown age. 2. the lifetime of an individual, or of the… …
someone's advancing age — someone’s advancing years/age phrase used for saying that someone is getting older Thesaurus: old age and relating to old agehyponym Main entry: advancing … Useful english dictionary
someone's advancing years — someone’s advancing years/age phrase used for saying that someone is getting older Thesaurus: old age and relating to old agehyponym Main entry: advancing … Useful english dictionary
someone of a certain age — (someone) of a certain age humorous used to avoid saying that a person, usually a woman, is no longer young but is not yet old. It s a clothes boutique which caters for women of a certain age … New idioms dictionary
age — ► NOUN 1) the length of time that a person or thing has existed. 2) a particular stage in someone s life. 3) the latter part of existence; old age. 4) a distinct period of history. 5) a division of geological time that is a subdivision of an… … English terms dictionary
age gap — UK US noun [countable] [singular age gap plural age gaps] the difference in age between two people There is a 10 year age gap between Tara and her husband. Thesaurus: general words for age and describing someone s age … Useful english dictionary
