2024年12月5日 · The researcher concluded that describing an older adult as “elderly” should be based on physical health and medications rather than chronological age. In other words, maybe “elderly” is a feeling, not a number. Describing an older adult as “elderly” should be based on physical health and medications rather than chronological age.

2016年9月21日 · Three quotations with "greater age" use this expression in the sense of "older". I also want to emphasize that they date 1865–1880. However, "greater age" also appears in the definition of "older": In the ordinary senses of old: Of greater age; that has lived or existed longer, of longer existence or standing; more ancient.

The boy is of age 11. I'm of age 20. Now, when talking about age alone, age is a noun and [age 11] is a noun phrase. In the case of your examples, [college aged students] and [college age students] represent two different cases of noun modification. [College aged] is clearly an adjectival phrase. [College age] is clearly a noun phrase.

The official toddler age range is described as 1 to 3 years old, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. But it’s important to remember that all kids are individuals. The lines of developmental stages aren’t clear cut, says Bethany Cook , a licensed clinical psychologist in the Chicago area and the author of “For What It’s ...

2015年6月8日 · In order to reach old age, you must once have had to be young. The 'tragedy' referred to, is that in old age, we remember only too well what we were in our youth - young, agile, and smooth-skinned. You cannot be old without having first been young, I'm pretty sure Oscar Wilde appreciated the beauty of youth, and its loss in old age.

2011年10月3日 · You might say they are long in the tooth which is a slightly nicer way of saying "old".. Alternatively you could talk about long life as a more positive way of referring to old age (although I'm struggling to think of a good example of doing this), or do away with talk about age altogether and say something like "How amazing to have five generations of your family together at the same time!"

2024年11月26日 · She was a fictitious character, yes, but regardless, her age tracks when it comes to the typical minimum babysitting age. Perhaps more important than Kristy’s age, though, was her maturity. “Pinpointing an exact age for babysitting readiness isn’t so simple because children mature at very different ages,” says Ruthie Arbit , a ...

First, I would like a positive or at least neutral connotation. "Antedate" is good in this sense, "old" not so much. (But I don't want to restrict the scope to just things that are known at the present but for which older uses are found, but also to include categorizing existing old things and discovering previously-unknown old things.)

2024年9月16日 · What is the right kindergarten age? Children enter kindergarten around the age of 5 years old however some children will begin the school year while they are still 4 and some will be turning 6 shortly after the school year begins as cutoff dates vary from state to state (and even from one school district or private school to the next).

2015年2月1日 · It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...