英和和英

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名詞

1

（＝年配）age

用例

• 年頃は四十ばかりの人だ
  He is a man of about forty.

• 彼は君と同じ年頃だ
  He is about your own age.
• 皆同じ年頃だ
  They are all of an age.
• もうそろそろわかる年頃だ
  She is old enough to understand such things
  She is of an age to understand such things.

2

（＝妙齢）marriageable age; nubility; adolescence; the age of puberty:（=の） marriageable; nubile; adolescent

用例

• あの子はもう年頃だ
  She is of a marriageable age―old enough to set married―of an age to get married.

• 年頃の娘
  a marriageable girl

副詞

（＝年来）for years past:（=の） of many year's standing

• 年頃の望みを遂げた
  I have obtained my long-cherished desire.