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[ US /ˈeɪdʒd, ˈeɪdʒɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
    ten years of age
    aged ten
  2. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
  3. of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
    mature well-aged cheeses
  4. at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
    aged rocks
  5. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
    elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
    aged members of the society
    senior citizen
NOUN
  1. people who are old collectively
    special arrangements were available for the aged

How To Use aged In A Sentence

  • Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
  • He's managed to stay calm and controlled when the other slebs have been going a bit mad, and just got on with the winning.
  • Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English. When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
  • Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
  • He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
  • “And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
  • Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
  • Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
  • We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
  • Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
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