-age

Time since birth

A suffix forming nouns, typically indicating a collective or aggregate baggage, a process or action blockage, the result of an action breakage, a rate or charge postage, or a place orphanage.

It attaches primarily to verbs and nouns: storage, marriage, dosage, shortage.

Words ending in -age usually take the stress on an earlier syllable.

suffix

breakage

Act of shattering

blockageObstruction halting movement
anchorageSecure harbor spot
espionageCovert intelligence gathering

camouflage · entourage

measurement

amperage

Electrical flow quantity

yardageLength in yards
wattageElectrical output measure
poundageWeight in pounds

leakage · slippage · seepage · flowage · ullage

collectivestate

herbage

Succulent leafy vegetation

leafageCollective growth on branches
cordageRopes and twines collectively
parsonageClergyman's provided dwelling

peerage · serfage

processaction

blockage

Obstruction halting movement

breakageAct of shattering
leakageUnintended fluid escape
seepageSlow fluid escape

slippage · anchorage · moorage · dockage · haulage · portage · espionage · camouflage

Opposites

life stage/temporal position

-ageyouth

State of being immature

childhood · infancy · young age · youthfulness · juvenility

newness/temporal existence

-agenewness

State of being recent

freshness · novelty · modernity · youth · recency

Family

age, aged, ageless, ageing, ager, ages, overage, underage, teenage

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