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Answer for the clue "Later part of normal life ", 7 letters:
old age

Word definitions for old age in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Old \Old\, a. [Compar. Older ; superl. Oldest .] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf. Adult , Alderman ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Old Age may refer to: old age Old Age (song) , song by Hole "Old Age", Louis Jordan "Old Age", B-side to Let's Party (Rhinoceros song) "Old Age", comedy sketch recorded by Phyllis Diller

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: years , age , eld , geezerhood ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The latter part of life, the part of life after one's prime.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She's a little forgetful, but that comes with old age . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Coping with life in old age without drink may require an entirely new and improved self-image. ▪ Meat did not have a place in the diet, except ...

Usage examples of old age.

At last, by the means and mediation of Queen Katherine the king's wrath was qualified, and his pardon sealed, and he spent his old age in peace, at a house of his own, not far from Nottingham, being generally beloved and respected by all.

She had accepted this submergence as philosophically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

The growing remoteness of old age, though it had not diminished her curiosity about her neighbours, had blunted her never very lively compassion for their troubles.

It was just as likely that he would stumble upon Sari as that he should find Lo-har, but he could not simply remain where he was waiting for death by accident or old age.

Being now free from the charge of his daughter, he determined to visit Germany, and, if circumstances were propitious, to secure a refuge for his old age in his favorite Leipsic.

And this is how it came about that the cautious old Squire Montague was drawn into this young fellow's speculation, and began to have his serene old age disturbed by anxieties and by the hope of a great stroke of luck.

And now that five-and-fifty years were gone, she spoke of the dead man as if he had been her son or grandson, with a kind of pity for his youth, growing out of her own old age, and an exalting of his strength and manly beauty as compared with her own weakness and decay.

Or else, were you going to say') We're getting feisty in our old age, aren't we?

Maybe I'm getting softheaded in my old age, but I'd like to think we'd take better care of somebody we promised we'd make a part owner of the casino.

A claim which was immediately followed by sour grumbling that in his old age he'd clearly gotten senile.

That, in my old age, God would place me before that same choice he gave Becket.