age

/eɪdʒ/

意味: 年齢

例文: Fluffin claims her age is “eternally sparkly.”
　　  フラッフィンは自分の年齢を「永遠にキラキラ」と主張。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: age group（年齢層）, age difference（年齢差）, old age（老齢）

定義: 人や物の年齢や経過した時間の長さ。また、特定の時代や人生の段階を表すときにも使われます。

ageは約5,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: how long something has existed
Noun: an era of history having some distinctive feature
Noun: a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
Noun: a prolonged period of time
Noun: a late time of life
Verb: begin to seem older; get older
Verb: grow old or older
Verb: make older

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She felt wiser with each passing age.(彼女は年を重ねるごとに賢くなったと感じた。)
At my age, I just want to enjoy life!(私の年齢では、ただ人生を楽しみたい！)
The age of reason marks a significant milestone in development.(理性の時代は発達における重要な節目を示す。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: it was replaced because of its age
Noun: we live in a litigious age
Noun: she was now of school age
Noun: tall for his eld
Noun: we’ve known each other for ages
Noun: I haven’t been there for years and years
Noun: old age is not for sissies
Noun: he’s showing his years
Noun: age hasn’t slowed him down at all
Noun: a beard white with eld
Noun: on the brink of geezerhood
Verb: The death of his wife caused him to age fast
Verb: She aged gracefully
Verb: we age every day–what a depressing thought!
Verb: Young men senesce
Verb: The death of his child aged him tremendously

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): age, eld, geezerhood, get on, historic period, long time, maturate, mature, old age, senesce, years

Antonyms(反意語): rejuvenate

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, develop, era, property, time of life, time period

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, actinism, activate, adjust, adolesce, adolescence, adulthood, affect, age, air alert, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, analyticity, angulate, animize, anisotropy, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, bachelorhood, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, bimester, bimillennium, blind, blister, bloom, blossom, blunt, blur, bodily property, boil, bout, break, break down, brighten, bring, bronze age, brutalize, bubble, bud, build up, calcify, calendar day, calendar month, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, century, change intensity, change taste, characteristic, charge, chasten, check, chemical property, childhood, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, clotting time, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, compositeness, concentration, condense, confuse, connectivity, consistency, constitution, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, dawn, day, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, deathbed, decade, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, dedifferentiate, deflate, deform, degree, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, differentiate, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disposition, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, dog days, domesticate, dope, downtime, draw, drought, dry, duality, dull, duration, dynamize, ease up, edibility, edit, eighties, elapsed time, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enlistment, equal, era, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, eve, even, evening, evolve, excite, extend, extension, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, festival, field day, fifties, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, flower, forties, fortnight, freeze, frenchify, full, fullness, gelatinize, generation, glamorize, glorify, golden age, golden years, great year, grow, habituate, half life, half-century, harmonize, harshen, heat, heredity, historic period, honeymoon, hospitalization, hour, hours, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, hydrophobicity, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, incubate, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, indispose, industrialize, infancy, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, iron age, islamize, isomerize, isotropy, lactation, laicize, lease, legitimate, lend, liberalize, life, lifehack, lift, liquefy, long run, long time, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, lustrum, magnetize, magnitude, make, manner, mark, masculinize, mature, mechanize, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, middle age, midweek, midwinter, militarize, millennium, mince, mix, modern era, morning, morph, muddy, multistage, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neonatal period, neutralize, nick, night, nineties, normalize, novitiate, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, occupation, officialize, old age, olfactory property, olympiad, opacify, opalize, opsonize, optics, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overtime, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, past, patent, peacetime, personalize, phase, phase of the moon, physical property, piggyback, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, prehistory, prepuberty, primality, professionalize, progress, prohibition, proof, prostrate, puberty, puerperium, purify, put, quadrennium, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quinquennium, radicalize, rainy day, rarefy, rationalize, real time, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regulation time, reign, relax, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, run, running time, rusticate, saltiness, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, school, schooldays, scramble, season, selectivity, semester, senesce, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, seventies, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shelf life, shift, shorten, silly season, silver age, simplify, sixties, size, sleep, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvability, solvate, sound property, spatial property, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strength, strengthen, string, study hall, substitute, suburbanize, summer, supercharge, supple, suspend, sustainability, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tactile property, tame, taste property, teens, temporal property, tender, tense, term, territorialize, thicken, think, thirties, tide, tighten, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, travel time, trial period, trimester, turn, turn back, twenties, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, unsolvability, untie, untune, uptime, urbanize, usance, validate, variegate, vascularity, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, viability, visual property, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, wartime, watch, weaken, weakness, weaponize, week, weekend, wet, widen, widowhood, window, work time, worsen, year, youth

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): age of consent, antiquity, blue moon, bone age, chronological age, developmental age, dotage, dote, drinking age, eon, fetal age, fossilize, golden age, jazz age, majority, mental age, minority, month of sundays, newness, oldness, reign, turn, turn of the century, voting age, year dot, youngness

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: age, geezer, maturation, senescent

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: