age bracket
Years-based grouping category
An age bracket is a range of ages grouped together, typically for statistical, demographic, or marketing purposes: the 18-to-24 age bracket, Which age bracket do you fall into?
The term treats age as something that slots people into categories, often on forms or in research studies.
Age group means the same thing.
- demographicStatistical population category
- generationAge-defined peer group
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
- life stagePeriod of development
- milestoneNotable event marking progress
teenage · young adult · elderly · youth · senior · senior citizen · over the hill · twenties · thirties · retirement · adolescent · toddler · infant · census · range · lifespan · geriatric · golden years
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, population, gender ratio, ethnic groups
- time unitssecond, minute, hour, seconds, day
- youth sports tournamentsLittle League, basketball camp, swim meet, track meet, wrestling tournament
- age limitslearner permit, legal capacity, eighteen, sixteen, twenty-one