[
US
/ˈeɪdʒd, ˈeɪdʒɪd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
ten years of age
aged ten - (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
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of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
mature well-aged cheeses -
at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
aged rocks -
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
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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.
- He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
- 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
- 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.
- “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
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
- Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
