English-French translations for age

• âge
  Le taux de suicide augmente avec l’âge. Suicide rates increase with age.
  Faites en sorte que l'épitaphe de Copenhague ne soit pas que c'était l'âge de la stupidité. Do not let the epitaph for Copenhagen be that this was the Age of Stupid.
  Nous sommes aux heures les plus noires du Moyen âge. It is like living in the Middle Ages.
• époque
  Cela dit, à quelle époque vivons-nous? Yet what age are we living in?
  Dans une époque aussi où l'argent est roi. And in an age when money is king?
  Le terrorisme est le fléau de notre époque. Terrorism is the curse of our age.
• vieillir
  Notre société continue de vieillir. Our society is constantly ageing.
  Notre continent est en train de vieillir rapidement. Our continent is now ageing very quickly.
  Vieillir, en particulier pour les femmes, ne devrait pas être un fardeau. Ageing and growing old, especially with regard to women, should not be a burden.
• ère
  Nous vivons à l'ère électronique numérique de l'Internet. We live in the time of IDEA - the Internet digital electronic age.
  Nous vivons à l'ère de l'informatique. We are living in a computer age.
  Nous vivons à l'ère de la mondialisation. We live in the age of globalisation.
• génération
  Elles débutent tôt dans la vie et, non seulement persistent dans la vieillesse, mais se transmettent aussi aux générations suivantes. They start early in life and persist not only into old age but subsequent generations.
  Certains considèrent le vieillissement comme une menace et dressent un tableau sombre du conflit entre les générations. Some see ageing as a threat and paint a bleak picture of conflict between the generations.
  La répartition des tranches d'âge risque, durant plusieurs décennies, d'avoir pour conséquence de sérieux conflits de générations. The age distribution in a decade or so will be such that we risk serious generational conflicts.
• période
  Pendant sept mois, il y a eu une "période glaciaire". For seven months, there was an 'ice age'.
  En cette période d'austérité, nous devons faire preuve de retenue. In this age of austerity we need to show restraint.
  Nous sommes dans une période et dans un régime démocratique. We live in a democratic age and under a democratic system.
• siècle
  Au fil des siècles, les comportements humains ont connu de nombreux développements. Throughout the ages, many measures of humanity have been developed.
  Le dix-neuvième siècle fut le siècle de l'agriculture, le vingtième, celui de l'industrie manufacturière. The nineteenth century was the age of agriculture and the twentieth century the age of manufacturing industry.
  La domination des Taliban nous replonge des siècles en arrière, aux heures les plus sombres du moyen âge. The power of the Taliban takes us back centuries, to the darkest years of the Middle Ages.
• vieillesse
  Les budgets nationaux ne peuvent pas garantir une vieillesse décente. National budgets cannot secure a decent old age.
  Notre population vieillit, et notre défi consiste à assurer une vieillesse saine.We have an ageing population. The point is to make ageing healthy.
  Les gens veulent bénéficier de pensions appropriées et sûres dans leur vieillesse. People want proper, secure pensions in their old age.

Definition of age

• The whole duration of a being#Noun|being, whether animal, plant#Noun|plant, or other kind, being alive
• One of the stage#Noun|stages of life
• The time#Noun|time of life at which some particular power#Noun|power or capacity is understood to become vested#Adjective|vested
• A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others
• A great#Adjective|great period in the history of the Earth
• A period of one hundred years; a century
• A generation
• A long time
• A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts
• That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part
• Mature age; ''especially'', the time of life at which one attains full personal#Adjective|personal rights and capacities
• An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority
• To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to
• To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt
• To categorize by age
• To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age

Examples

• the age of infancy
• the age of consent; the age of discretion
• the golden age; the age of Pericles
• the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch
• There are three ages living in her house
• It’s been an age since we last saw you
• What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
• to come of age; she is now of age
• Wisdom doesnt necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself
• Grief ages us
• Moneys a little tight right now, lets age our bills for a week or so
• One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable
• He grew fat as he aged

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