The latter part of life, when one is an older adult; especially, the years from age 65 onward.
People often become hard of hearing in old age.
A cause of death representing natural death through the expected accumulation of health problems in advanced age.
The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement.
I have often wondered what's so "new" about the New Age; its basic tenets that we can completely create our own reality and that everything happens for a reason, to teach some sort of lesson, have always seemed to me to carry the same message as the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosophy of the Old Age.
From Middle English olde age, eld age; compare earlier Middle English olde elde (“old age”), alderelde (“old age”), equivalent to old + age. Displaced wholly non-native Middle English vilesse (“old ag...
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