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

That suggests that astronomers might not fully understand the timeline of middle age.

From Science News

You don’t see outbreaks like the middle ages and that’s because of sanitation.

From 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.

From 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.

From Time

The dogs’ interest in problem-solving tended to rise until middle age before leveling off.

From Nautilus

George Cook, a middle-age black man from the Bronx, brought up the rear.

From The Daily Beast

Hughes, a middle-age black man from Far Rockaway in Queens, has never been a part of any protests himself but supports them.

From The Daily Beast

As Victoria was buying pots and tea cups Monday, she told the middle-age shop assistants she was purchasing them for the ATO.

From The Daily Beast

And I can only see those aspects of his legacy deepening if he had lived into middle age and beyond.

From The Daily Beast

I wanted to see if Jimmy in his middle age had it in him to fight cancer and how his sense of humor would help him in this fight.

From The Daily Beast

D'Israeli loved the long pipe in his youth, but in middle age pronounced it 'the tomb of love.'

From Project Gutenberg

As she spoke, a handsome man of middle age and erect carriage entered the room.

From Project Gutenberg

Paul was short in stature, somewhat stooping and at the middle age his hair was thin, inclining to baldness.

From Project Gutenberg

It is filled throughout with legends relating to the Devil, and with superstitious beliefs of the Middle Age.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a man a little under middle age, of medium height and thick-set, with black hair and a pale, smooth-shaven face.

From Project Gutenberg

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