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noun
A person's (approximate) age, as a guide to what they might be expected to be doing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
Narrower terms: summer, age, eld, neonatal period, infancy, babyhood, early childhood, childhood, schooldays, schooltime, youth, adolescence, prepuberty, puberty, pubescence, teens, twenties, mid-twenties, thirties, mid-thirties, thirty-something, forties, mid-forties, fifties, mid-fifties, sixties, mid-sixties, golden years, seventies, mid-seventies, eighties, mid-eighties, nineties, mid-nineties, bloom, bloom of youth, salad days, adulthood, maturity, bachelorhood, middle age, widowhood, old age, years, geezerhood, deathbed
History
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