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From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old + age. Displaced non-native Middle English vilesse (“old age”) (borrowed from Old French villesce, vieillece (“old age”)) and senectute (“old age”) (from Latin senectūs (“old age”)).
old age (uncountable)
- The latter part of life, the part of life after one's prime.
- People of old age are often hard of hearing.
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latter part of life
- Arabic: شَيْخُوخَة f (šayḵūḵa), عُجُوز m (ʕujūz), كِبْر سِنّ m (kibr sinn)
- Aragonese: vielluz
- Armenian: ծերություն (hy) (cerutʻyun)
- Aromanian: bitãrneatsã f
- Azerbaijani: qocalıq
- Belarusian: ста́расць f (stárascʹ)
- Bulgarian: ста́рост (bg) f (stárost)
- Catalan: vellesa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 晚年 (zh) (wǎnnián), 老年 (zh) (lǎonián), 老年期 (zh) (lǎoniánqī)
- Czech: stáří (cs) n
- Danish: alderdom c
- Dutch: ouderdom (nl) m
- Egyptian: (jꜣw)
- Esperanto: maljuneco, oldeco
- Finnish: vanhuus (fi)
- French: troisième âge (fr) f, vieillesse (fr) f
- Galician: vellez f
- Georgian: სიბერე (sibere)
- German: hohes Alter n, Alter (de) n
- Alemannic German: Altar
- Greek: γεράματα (el) n pl (gerámata), γηρατειά (el) n pl (girateiá), τρίτη ηλικία f (tríti ilikía)
- Ancient: γῆρας n (gêras)
- Hebrew: זִקְנָה (he) f (zikná), זְקוּנִים m pl (z'kuním) (biblical)
- Hindi: बुढ़ापा (hi) m (buṛhāpā), वृद्धावस्था (hi) f (vŕddhāvasthā)
- Hungarian: öregség (hu), öregkor (hu), időskor (hu)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: masa tua (id)
- Irish: foirfeacht f, aostacht f
- Italian: vecchiaia (it) f
- Japanese: 晩年 (ja) (ばんねん, bannen), 老年 (ja) (ろうねん, rōnen)
- Kazakh: кәрілік (kärılık), қариялық (qariälyq), қарттық (qarttyq), шалдық (şaldyq)
- Korean: 노년(老年) (nonyeon), 만년(晩年) (ko) (mannyeon)
- Kyrgyz: карылык (ky) (karılık)
- Ladin: vedleza f
- Latin: senectūs f, senium (la) n
- Latvian: vecums m, vecība f
- Macedonian: ста́рост f (stárost)
- Malayalam: വാർദ്ധക്യം (ml) (vāṟddhakyaṁ)
- Manx: shenn eash f
- Maori: koroheketanga, nehe, mātāpūpututanga, kaumātuatanga
- Navajo: są́
- Ngazidja Comorian: undru ɗuhazi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: alderdom (no) m
- Nynorsk: alderdom m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: старость f (starostĭ)
- Persian: پیری (fa) (piri), زرمان (zarmân) (archaic), کهنسالی (kohansâli) (formal), سالخوردگی (fa) (sâlxordegi)
- Polish: starość (pl) f
- Portuguese: velhice (pt) f
- Romanian: bătrânețe (ro) f
- Russian: ста́рость (ru) f (stárostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: старост f
- Latin: starost (sh) f
- Sicilian: vicchiania f
- Slovak: staroba f
- Slovene: starost (sl) f
- Spanish: vejez (es) f, tercera edad (es) f
- Swedish: ålderdom (sv) c
- Tajik: солхурдаги (solxurdagi), пирӣ (tg) (pirī)
- Telugu: వృద్ధాప్యము (te) (vr̥ddhāpyamu), ముసలితనము (te) (musalitanamu)
- Thai: วัยสูงอายุ (wai sŏong aayú)
- Tocharian B: ktsaitstsäññe
- Turkish: yaşlılık (tr)
- Ukrainian: ста́рість f (stáristʹ)
- Urdu: بڑھاپا m (buṛhāpā)
- Uzbek: keksalik (uz), qarilik (uz)
- Vietnamese: tuổi già (vi)
- Yiddish: זקונים pl (zkunem), זקנה f (zikne), אַלטערהייט f (alterheyt), אַלטקייט f (altkeyt)
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