# old age
## English
### Etymology

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”)).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

old age (uncountable)
* The latter part of life, the part of life after one's prime.
    People often become hard of hearing in old age.
* A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.

#### Synonyms

* codgerhood, eld, golden years; see also Thesaurus:old age

#### Derived terms

* old age pension

#### Translations

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)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پیری (ckb) (pîrî)
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)
Old English: æfteryldo f
Ottoman Turkish: كبر (kiber)
Persian: پیری (fa) (piri), زرمان (zarmân) (archaic), کهنسالی (kohansâli) (formal), سالخوردگی (fa) (sâlxordegi)
Polabian: storüst f
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
Swahili: ushaibu (sw), uzee (sw)
Swedish: ålderdom (sv) c
Tajik: солхурдаги (solxurdag-i), пирӣ (tg) (piri)
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) :

### Further reading

* old age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* age-old, gaoled, geodal, goaled