Meaning of ELD
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- [n] a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"
- [n] a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
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| | Synonyms: | | age, geezerhood, old age, years |
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| | See Also: | | age of consent, dotage, drinking age, eighties, legal age, life, lifespan, lifetime, majority, mid-eighties, mid-nineties, mid-seventies, mid-sixties, minority, nineties, nonage, second childhood, senility, seventies, sixties, time of life, voting age | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Eld\, a. [AS. eald.]
Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Eld\, n. [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald,
old. See {Old}.]
1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic]
As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
--Chaucer.
Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
--Spenser.
2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
Astrologers and men of eld. --Longfellow.
\Eld\, v. i.
To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
\Eld\, v. t.
To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R.
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