ageable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ageable (comparative more ageable, superlative most ageable)
- Capable of being aged; suitable for ageing.
- 2009, Wine Enthusiast, volume 23, numbers 1-7, page 91:
- An ageable wine with great character and poise.
- (dialect, informal, dated) Getting on in years; fairly old.
- 1842, Great Britain. Parliament, House of Commons Papers, volume 12, page 456:
- I received your letter by the bearer, and in reply to it I have to state that my father is an ageable man now, and not able to attend to the time appointed by your Honour.
- 1932, Julia Mood Peterkin, Bright Skin, page 39:
- She looked like an ageable woman but Wes was young and supple as a boy.
- 2009, Sara F. Munday, Becoming Myself: A Passage of Grace, page 77:
- They had no children, and they were getting to be up in years—“ageable” as Took described it.