middle age

noun

1. the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.

middle age

noun

1. the period of life between youth and old age, usually (in man) considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60

Word History and Origins

Origin of middle age¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Keaton again paired with Jack Nicholson in this 2003 romantic comedy about a pair of mismatched professionals who fall in love in late middle age despite their best efforts to the contrary.

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Have you taken up a sport in middle age?

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Anderson says that three things are inevitable: middle age, complacency and the tendency to look at the next generation with disdain.

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The lyrics are the only giveaway that this is the work of a band in their late middle age - as Cocker, the poet laureate of suburban misfits, sings movingly about stagnation, divorce and mortality.

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The profile described a man in the fullness of middle age, harvesting the benefits he had earned, drinking the best wines and single-malt scotch, driving appropriately luxurious but not ostentatious vehicles.

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Related Words

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