English-Thai Dictionary

dotage

N ความ ชรา เลอะเลือน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOTAGE

n.[from dote. ] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age, childishness of old age; as a venerable man now in his dotage.
2. A doting; excessive fondness.
3. Deliriousness. [See the verb, to dote. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DOTAGE

Do "tage, n. Etym: [From Dote, v. i.]

 

1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

 

2. Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton.

 

3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dotage

dot age |ˈdōtij ˈdoʊdɪʤ | ▶noun [ in sing. ] the period of life in which a person is old and weak: you could live here and look after me in my dotage . ORIGIN late Middle English: from dote + -age .

 

Oxford Dictionary

dotage

dotage |ˈdəʊtɪdʒ | ▶noun the period of life in which a person is old and weak: you could live here and look after me in my dotage . ORIGIN late Middle English: from dote + -age .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dotage

dotage noun the memoirs she began in her dotage: declining years, winter of one's life, autumn of one's life; advanced years, old age; literary eld.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dotage

dotage noun Uncle Henry was in his dotage: declining years, winter /autumn of one's life; advanced years, old age, elderliness, agedness, oldness, senescence, senility, superannuation, decrepitude, second childhood; literary eld; rare caducity. ANTONYMS childhood.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dotage

dot age /dóʊtɪdʒ /名詞 U 老いぼれ, もうろく ▸ be in one's dotage 〈人などが 〉もうろくしている