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ages

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪz//

A long time.

noun

  1. 1

    A long time.

    haven't seen them in ages

    haven't seen them for ages

    It'll be ages until/before we meet again.

    Does the Station go on still? That was ages and ages ago. It must be crumbling to pieces. All except the Amirtollah kutcha road. I don't believe that could crumble till the Day of Judgment.

  2. 2

    History (past events): Astronomic and geologic history; human history.

    Trees have continually evolved throughout the ages.

    Humans have warred with one another throughout the ages.

  3. 3

    Also a form of ageplural of age

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of agethird-person singular simple present indicative of age

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).