middle-aged

[mid-l-eyjd]

adjective

1. being of the age intermediate between youth and old age, roughly between 45 and 65.

2. characteristic of or suitable for persons of this age.

middle-aged

adjective

1. of, relating to, or being in the time in a person's life between youth and old age

Other Word Forms

• middle-agedly adverb
• middle-agedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of middle-aged¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

She went onto play a lonely, middle-aged department store clerk tipped into a relationship with a kinky podiatrist in Bennett's Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet.

From BBC

The corpses proved to be insufficient surrogates for Gein, who later devolved into murdering middle-aged women who reminded him of his mother.

From Los Angeles Times

Like for many "white, middle-aged, middle-class men", offers Rob Gibbons, "the world has changed too fast for him" and he's "scared".

From BBC

How do they look compared to, say, you?” he added, contrasting the people agents are taking into custody with the reporter, who is a middle-aged white man.

From Salon

One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.

From BBC