old age

短语
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[医]老年期，老龄

发音

US

别名

OASDI

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.

    不可数
  2. 2.

    The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.

    晚年

    老年

    老年期

    不可数

    People often become hard of hearing in old age.

    A ripe old age.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

years age eld

上位词 1

time of life

下位词 5

senility decrepitude autumn years dotage second childhood

部分词 7

sixties eighties seventies nineties mideighties midseventies midsixties

词源

From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old + age. Displaced wholly non-native Middle English vilesse (“old age”) (borrowed from Old French villesce, vieillece (“old age”)) and senectute (“old age”) (from Latin senectūs (“old age”)).

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