middle age

American  

noun

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

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middle age British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of middle age

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Example Sentences

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middle age

She has also teamed up with Steve Speirs in a six-part comedy series called Better Later, about the challenges of relationships in middle age.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nine siblings faced a collective struggle against frontotemporal dementia, which strikes in middle age and radically changes lives and personalities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

What Huberman’s worldview proposes is that motivated people can take small actions to relieve themselves of these endemic problems of middle age.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even as millennial showrunners themselves find success and approach middle age, precarity is taken as a given in the stories they tell.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The last photo—the last thing he’d ever sent her, in fact—showed my grandfather at middle age, holding a little girl.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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