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Definition of Aged

Aged

of Age

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

Belonging to old age.

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

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Aged Quotations

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
Robert Frost

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
Andy Rooney

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
Petrarch

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Lionel Blue

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
Angela Carter

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.
DeForest Kelley

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Anne Tyler

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Derek Bailey

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
Julie Bishop

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Jean Paul

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.
Howard Coble

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.
Mark Kennedy

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
Robert Fortune

I've aged, but grown up? No.
Jake Lloyd

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
Julie Bishop

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Robert Fortune

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.
Julie Bishop

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Aged Translations

aged in Dutch is oud
aged in German is im Alter von, bejahrt
aged in Italian is annoso
aged in Latin is senex senis, provectus
aged in Portuguese is envelhecido

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