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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
Felix Dennis

Meaning of "dotage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOTAGE

From dote + -age.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DOTAGE

dotage  [ˈdəʊtɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOTAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dotage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DOTAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dotage in the English dictionary

The definition of dotage in the dictionary is feebleness of mind, esp as a result of old age. Other definition of dotage is foolish infatuation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOTAGE


adjutage
ˈædʒʊtɪdʒ
advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
ajutage
ˈædʒʊtɪdʒ
anecdotage
ˈænɪkˌdəʊtɪdʒ
cottage
ˈkɒtɪdʒ
disadvantage
ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
floatage
ˈfləʊtɪdʒ
flotage
ˈfləʊtɪdʒ
footage
ˈfʊtɪdʒ
frontage
ˈfrʌntɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
hostage
ˈhɒstɪdʒ
outage
ˈaʊtɪdʒ
percentage
pəˈsɛntɪdʒ
postage
ˈpəʊstɪdʒ
reportage
rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ
shortage
ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ
vantage
ˈvɑːntɪdʒ
vintage
ˈvɪntɪdʒ
voltage
ˈvəʊltɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOTAGE

dot
dot ball
dot leaders
dot matrix printer
dot one´s i´s and cross one´s t´s
dot product
dot the i´s and cross the t´s
dot-matrix printer
dotal
dotard
dotation
dotcom
dotcommer
dote
doter
doth
doting
dotingly
dotish
dotted

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOTAGE

agiotage
backstage
cabotage
competitive advantage
ecotage
escamotage
etage
helotage
hermitage
high voltage
high-voltage
montage
pilotage
Pinotage
potage
rootage
sabotage
stage
the stage
wattage

Synonyms and antonyms of dotage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DOTAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dotage» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dotage

Translation of «dotage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOTAGE

Find out the translation of dotage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dotage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dotage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

溺爱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

senil
570 millions of speakers

English

dotage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साठियापा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

старческое слабоумие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dotage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভীমরতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gâtisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dotage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Senilität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

もうろく
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dotage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lẩn thẩn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதுமையால் ஏற்படும் மனத்தளர்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ठिपके
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bunaklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rimbambimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dotage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

старече слабоумство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dotage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξεμωράματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kindsheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dotage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dotage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dotage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOTAGE»

The term «dotage» is regularly used and occupies the 86.962 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOTAGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dotage

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2 QUOTES WITH «DOTAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dotage.
1
Felix Dennis
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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Jack Germond
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOTAGE»

Discover the use of dotage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dotage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dotage
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, George Bradford Bartlett, Mary Graham, 2010
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"Here Comes Newer Comfort": The Transformation of Comfort ...
Baxter includes Herbert's poem, "Dotage," calling it "an example of contemplation for the help of the unskillful."21 And, indeed, Herbert's "Dotage" images Baxter's very tug-of-war between "the want of these Heavenly Delights" that leaves man ...
Ruth E. Friedman, 2008
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
27 5 Doricles. They call him Doricles; and he boasts himself to have a worthy feeding ' Winter's Tale. 4 3 291 2 I6 Dormmue. To awake your dormouse valour - Twelfth Night. 3 2 77 I 7 Dorset, Marquis. D. P. - - - Richard iii. 556 Dotage. I would ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827
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Dramatic works with explanatory notes. A new ed., to which ...
Dotage. I would she had bestow'd this dotage on me Much Ado About Nothing. - When they hold an opinion of one another's dotage - Ibid. - Her dotage now I do begin to pity - - Midf Nigb"r Dream. - This dotage of our generass o'erflows the ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, 1790
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
A*m I would (he had bestow'd this dotage on me Mitib Ado About Nothing. — When they hold an opinion of one another's dotage - Ibid. — Her dotage now 1 do begin to pity - Mid. Night's Dream. — This dotage ot our general's o'erflows the  ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1791
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
D. P. Dotage. I would she had bestow'd this dotage on me — When they hold an opinion of one another's dotage — Her dotage now I do begin to pity — This dotage of our general's o'erflows the measure — These strong /Egyptian fetters I  ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, 1790
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The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England : Or ...
[a] Je A. be Vuardian in Dotage, of the Body and Lande of B. within the Age of four: teen years, A. shall be Guardian in Dotage per cause de gard. But an Jnfant within [b] 16 E- 3- nc- 5=- Age, that [b] is not in the Custody'of another, cannot be  ...
Edward Coke, 1738
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Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare
Another significant term in this scene is “dotage,” which Goneril uses to describe her old father to Albany: “let his disposition have that scope / As dotage gives it” ( 284–85). Like the word “idle,” “dotage” has a dual meaning. It generally refers to  ...
Maurice Charney, 2013
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Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology ...
Of the three great figures of mental anguish that might be said to haunt European thought before the nineteenth century—melancholy, lunacy, and dotage or senility—the first two become central to the reflexive accounting of modernity, whether ...
Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen, 2006
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The Anatomy of melancholy
Phrewtis, which the Greeks derive from the word q>wv, is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever aunexed, or else an inflammation of the brain, or the membranes or kels of it, with an acute fcTer, ...
Robert Burton, 1857

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOTAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dotage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sarello's Sea Bass: Restaurant's 'farewell dinner' features signature …
But the overwhelming memories — the ones that will linger long into our dotage — are of the dozens of talented young people who have found ... «DL-Online, Jul 15»
2
When a thief gets robbed too….Mugabe vs Grace
She may actually end up taking full charge of village issues, profiting from a senile husband in his dotage. The same could be happening in the ... «Nehanda Radio, Jul 15»
3
Tony Christie's quiet comeback
Spare a thought for poor Tony Christie, would you? He thought he was getting to retire to sunny Spain with his wife for some dotage crooning to ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
4
Dover Doin's: Turning 75 is a really big deal
When I misplace my keys now, is it because I am in my dotage? But I couldn't find my keys at 20! While speaking with my wonderful 29-year-old ... «Foster's Daily Democrat, Jul 15»
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GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: The 'E' Word
In his dotage, he travels, kayaks, meditates and writes for the Journal and the Humboldt Historian. He sucks at 8 Ball. Buy his Field Notes ... «Lost Coast Outpost, Jul 15»
6
New Iris Trailer & Poster
More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even in Iris' dotage, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. «FemaleFirst.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle's hero still in his element
... old man in his dotage. Clubs and societies used to keep Holmes alive; nowadays he belongs to the mainstream and has never been in finer ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Carol Wilkie's Notes from a Small Settee: 'Cox's Mill left to moulder …
... that must consume a bit of time not to mention decreasing reserves energy in his dotage. He's also got his heritage kaftan collection to preen. «Cheddar Valley Gazette, Jul 15»
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Pete Townshend: 'Music has always suffered from being tied to …
It's tempting to infer that the angry young man, who hoped he'd die before he got old, has, in his dotage, become an upstanding member of the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Roger Federer vs Sam Querrey, Wimbledon 2015: as it happened
Roger Federer was content to bathe in the kind of unconditional reverence that perhaps only Frank Sinatra enjoyed in his professional dotage, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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