aged

Examples

• All

• A priest came to see her here at the Sacred Heart Home for the Aged.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Failure to cater for the aged is an abomination among various ethnic groups in Nigeria.

  Academic text (2011)

• So there are policy implications for a rising aged population.

• During that period, large, new concentrations of the aged appeared in other counties.

  Academic text (1990)

• For instance, the aged are engaged in taking care of their grandchildren, ensuring peaceful co-existence within the community.

  Academic text (2011)

• Despite the community's youth, New York City's first East European institution for the aged, the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, was founded in 1897.

  Academic text (1992)

• In 1839, the members of the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, and Indigent Females built the first Protestant old-age home in New York.

  Academic text (1992)

• In 1903, the Charity Board of New York City renamed its public almshouse the Home for the Aged and Infirm (Folks, 1903).

  Academic text (1993)

• More than six million older people will have a debilitating long-term illness by 2025, according to a study by Help the Aged's research arm, Research into Ageing.

  Academic text (2009)

• The community center offers a variety of activities for the aged to stay active and social.

Synonyms

E

elderly

vsaged

118 2.0

A group of people who are past middle age

is a slightly more formal collective label used in general or official contexts

T

the olds

vsaged

• Informal

4 9.1

People who have lived a long time

is the neutral collective term rather than an informal or playful expression

Antonyms

Y

youth

143 1.0

The time between childhood and adulthood when someone is young

Y

young

43 1.6

People who are not yet adults considered together as a group

Compounds

M

middle-aged man

32 2.1

A man around 45 to 65 years old

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology