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

Example Sentences

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middle age

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

Among participants in middle age, more frequent nighttime micro awakenings were associated with a higher genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

My friends are the same age, and I had seen the threat that middle age poses, the compulsion to make really poor choices at the cost of so much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

In middle age he was the wealthy, respected man he had wanted to be when he was a struggling adolescent without godfathers and with no greater capital than his pride and ambition.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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