0 the condition of being very old; used especially to talk about someone who has a long healthy life: --
It may very well be that he prefers not to insure his life, lives to a ripe old age, and then dies, and is succeeded by his son.
She must be a ripe old age.
One of the characteristics of life is that we all want to live as long as possible and to a ripe old age.
We can all look forward, if that is the right expression, not only to a ripe old age but to the risk of the disease.
No one is going to tell me that those men are enjoying a ripe old age.
But the other fellow who enjoys his work is venerated and lives to a ripe old age, which is his reward.
I benefited from that prudence, inheriting a small income when she died at a ripe old age.
It seems absurd to condemn as unfit for human habitation a cottage in which successive generations have lived to a ripe old age.
