年とし取とり

noun

growing older; aging

General term for getting older, often used in the context of birthdays or the passage of years.

• 年とし取とりを感かんじるようになった。

  I've started to feel my age.

• 年とし取とりのせいか、疲つかれやすくなった。

  Maybe it's because of getting older, but I get tired more easily.

noun

New Year's Eve aging ceremony; year-end age ritual

Traditional custom of celebrating everyone becoming a year older on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter, rather than on individual birthdays.

• 昔むかしは年とし取とりの晩ばんに家か族ぞくで集あつまったものだ。

  In the old days, families would gather on the night of the aging ceremony.