Helen Fenton

Agency: Definition and part of speech

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Agency

  1. n. The place of business of am agent.
  2. n. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
  3. n. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aged: Definition and part of speech

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Aged

  1. imp. & p. p. of Age
  2. a. 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.
  3. a. Belonging to old age.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Age: Definition and part of speech

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Age

  1. n. A long time.
  2. n. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
  3. n. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
  4. n. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
  5. n. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
  6. n. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
  7. n. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
  8. n. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
  9. n. A great period in the history of the Earth.
  10. n. A century; the period of one hundred years.
  11. 1n. 1 A long time.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.