Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

adolescent adj
adult adj
age n (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
age n (BEING OLD)
aged adj (AGE)
aged adj (OLD)
age group n
ageing adj
ageless adj
age limit n
aging
babyish adj
big adj (LARGE)
birthday n
centenarian n
childish adj
coeval adj
coeval n
eighties n
elderly adj
eldest adj
eldest n
fifties n
forties n
fresh-faced adj
full-grown adj
gaga adj (MENTALLY UNCLEAR)
geriatric adj
geriatric n
going on adv, prep
gone prep
grown up adj
hale and hearty adj
hoary adj
immature adj
infantile adj
infirm adj
juvenile adj
little adj (YOUNG)
maturation n (GROWTH)
mature adj (LIKE AN ADULT)
mature adj (PHYSICALLY GROWN)
mature v (DEVELOP MENTALLY)
mature v (GROW PHYSICALLY)
maturely adv
maturity n (MENTAL DEVELOPMENT)
maturity n (FULL GROWTH)
nineties n
nonagenarian n
octogenarian n
old adj (NOT YOUNG/NEW)
old adj (WHAT AGE)
oldish adj
over- prefix (MORE THAN)
overage adj
overgrown adj (TOO LARGE)
pensionable adj
petulant adj
precocious adj
precociously adv
prepubescent adj
pubescent adj
puerile adj
retarded adj
rising prep
school-leaving age n

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senile adj
senior adj (OLDER)
seniority n (LONG TIME)
septuagenarian n
seventies n
sexagenarian n
sixties n
small adj (YOUNG)
-something suffix
sophomoric adj
sprightly adj
spry adj
superannuated adj
teenage adj, at teenager n
teens n
tender adj (YOUNG)
thirties n
tweenager n
twenties n
twenty-first n
underage adj
wizened adj
yoof adj
young adj
youthful adj
aging, at ageing adj
teenaged, at teenager n
elder sister/brother/son/daughter
the eldest
a grown man/woman
three, eight, etc. years sb's junior
20, 30, etc. years sb's senior
show your age
slip of a sth
be no spring chicken
at your time of life
before your time
turn 16, nine o'clock, etc.
look young for your age
have had its/your day idiom
in the flower of sb's youth idiom
have one foot in the grave idiom
grand old age idiom
an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
over the hill idiom
be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
be knocking (on) 60, 70, etc. idiom
be long in the tooth idiom
make a man (out) of sb idiom
as old as Methuselah idiom
at your mother's knee idiom
be (as) old as the hills idiom
overgrown schoolboy/schoolgirl idiom
be past it idiom
be past your sell-by date idiom
ripe old age idiom
on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. idiom
this side of sth idiom
when sb was a (mere) twinkle in their father's eye idiom
for a man/woman/person of his/her years idiom
put years on sb idiom
take years off sb idiom
young at heart idiom

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