Aged vs Agee - What's the difference?
aged | agee |
(uncountable) Old people, collectively.
(age)
Having the age of. (primarily non-US)
* 1865 October 6, “
* 2012 March 22, Amy Chozick, “
(Scotland and dialect, archaic ) Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
*1800 , Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography
*:I wore my hat agee .
*1837 , Catharine Sedgwick, Live and Let Live
*:A looking-glass that don't make you look as if your face was all agee .
As an adjective aged
is old.As a noun aged
is old people, collectively.As a verb aged
is past tense of age.As a preposition aged
is having the age of. (primarily non-US.As an adverb agee is
(Scotland and dialect, archaic) Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.aged
English
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* (disyllabic only)Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Preposition
(English prepositions)- Aged 18, he had no idea what would happen next.
Court of Special Sessions”, in The New York Times :
- John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help”, in The New York Times :
- Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.