AGING
What does "AGING" mean?
The process of growing old, or of letting something mature over time.
Meanings
- The natural process of growing older. Research into aging hopes to extend healthy years, not just lifespan.
- The deliberate maturing of food or drink to develop flavour. The cheese improves with a year of aging in the cave.
- Growing old; becoming older. An aging fleet of buses kept breaking down.
Word origin
The gerund of the verb 'age', from Old French 'aage', from Latin 'aetas' (age, lifetime), itself from 'aevum' (lifetime, age) - the root also behind 'eternal' and 'medieval'.
Remember it
AGING is just AGE plus -ING - the word caught in the very act it describes, the spelling dropping its final 'e' as if worn down by time.
A little poem
The oak gives up one ring a year, and asks
for nothing back. We count ours on the face,
and call the keeping of them a complaint.
tercet
What it teaches
Aging is not subtraction; the same years that wear the body deepen the wine and the wit.
Quick facts
What does AGING mean?
The process of growing old, or of letting something mature over time.
Is AGING a valid word?
Yes — AGING is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AGING?
AGING has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does AGING come from?
The gerund of the verb 'age', from Old French 'aage', from Latin 'aetas' (age, lifetime), itself from 'aevum' (lifetime, age) - the root also behind 'eternal' and 'medieval'.
What can AGING teach us?
Aging is not subtraction; the same years that wear the body deepen the wine and the wit.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.