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How to spell age
Age is spelled A-G-E.
What it means: The length of time a person or thing has lived.
In a sentence: She is the same age as her brother.
Same family: aged, aging, ageing, underage, teenage. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Age comes from Old French "aage" and Latin "aetas," meaning a period of life or lifetime. It’s related to words like "eternal" and "medieval" (Middle Ages), which also refer to stretches of time.
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