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noun

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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Origin of middle age

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Words nearby middle age

middelmannetjie, middelskot, midden, middie, middle, middle age, middle-aged, Middle Ages, middle-age spread, Middle America, Middle American

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How to use middle age in a sentence

That suggests that astronomers might not fully understand the timeline of middle age.
How do scientists calculate the age of a star?|Helen Thompson|July 23, 2021|Science News
You don’t see outbreaks like the middle ages and that’s because of sanitation.
You could get the plague (but probably won’t)|empire|July 18, 2021|Popular-Science
The condition is typically diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, but it can take until middle age before a person’s vision has deteriorated severely enough that they are fully or effectively blind.
A Blind Patient Regained Partial Sight in a Breakthrough Study, Offering Hope to Millions|Jeffrey Kluger|May 24, 2021|Time
He insists that they shouldn’t have had to be monks to survive into middle age—and he directs righteous, well-deserved anger at the adults, in Britain and beyond, who raised their children to live in shame.
HBO Max’s Bold, Witty and Wrenching AIDS Drama It’s a Sin Is the First Must-See Show of 2021|Judy Berman|February 18, 2021|Time

The dogs’ interest in problem-solving tended to rise until middle age before leveling off.
Cognitive Scientists Are Going to the Dogs - Issue 95: Escape|Gareth Wilmer|February 3, 2021|Nautilus
According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
Freaking Out About Age Gaps in Gay Relationships Is Homophobic|Samantha Allen|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
Freaking Out About Age Gaps in Gay Relationships Is Homophobic|Samantha Allen|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.
Should Teens Have The Right To Die?|Brandy Zadrozny|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Among the Sioux|R. J. Creswell
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman

British Dictionary definitions for middle age

middle age

noun

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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