age is just a number in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "age ain't nothing but a number",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "age is just a number",
      "name": "en-head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Age",
          "orig": "en:Age",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fandom",
          "orig": "en:Fandom",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Shipping (fandom)",
          "orig": "en:Shipping (fandom)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Age is not a particularly important attribute in a person."
      ],
      "id": "en-age_is_just_a_number-en-proverb-pw2i0S-C",
      "links": [
        [
          "attribute",
          "attribute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-age is just a number.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "age is just a number"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "age ain't nothing but a number",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "age is just a number",
      "name": "en-head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "English sarcastic terms",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Age",
        "en:Fandom",
        "en:Shipping (fandom)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Age is not a particularly important attribute in a person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attribute",
          "attribute"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-age is just a number.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-age_is_just_a_number.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "age is just a number"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"age is just a number" meaning in English

Proverb

Alternative forms