old age

noun

1. the last period of human life, now often considered to be the years after 65.

Other Words From

• old-age adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of old age¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

Now, at the ripe old age of 32, William must pull himself together, stop crying and grow up.

From Washington Post

Unlike day octopuses, who reach a ripe old age at 15 months, brown-marbled and peacock grouper can easily live 40 years or longer.

From Nautilus

For instance, he assures us that dementia is not necessarily an inevitable consequence of old age, that older people can in fact learn new things, and that doing the daily crossword puzzle is fine but flexes only a portion of your brain.

From Washington Post

Those images revealed 46 growth bands, suggesting that this shark lived to the ripe old age of 46.

From Science News

This less flexible medium causes our cells to change behavior, exhibiting signs of old age.

From Fortune

Now in his old age, Hitchcock develops crushes on young women, gives them money, and asks them to do God knows what.

From The Daily Beast

Old age is the saddest and rarest way to go; I witnessed it only once.

From The Daily Beast

The three basic ways for prisoners to die are old age, disease or violently.

From The Daily Beast

Murder, suicide, illness, old age: These deaths stalk us all, but in prison, they collect us so much more cheaply.

From The Daily Beast

Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

From The Daily Beast

But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.

From Project Gutenberg

He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.

From Project Gutenberg

From affluence he came to want, and in his old age a fund was raised sufficient to purchase him an annuity of £600 a year.

From Project Gutenberg

That we will, and you never need want, Mark, for I've many a fine bone buried away against old age and rainy weather.

From Project Gutenberg

The staff officer replied that a pension of four hundred francs would save them from want in their old age.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• infirmity