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middle age

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middle age
n.
The time of human life between youth and old age, usually reckoned as the years between 40 and 60. Also called midlife.
middle age
Noun
the period of life between youth and old age, usually considered to occur between the ages of 40 and 60
middle-aged adj
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Noun1.middle age - the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
adulthood, maturity - the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
change of life, menopause, climacteric - the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
climacteric - a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause
Translations
French middle age n → tranche d'âge aux limites floues, entre la quarantaine et le début du troisième âge
German middle age middle n → mittleres Lebensalter nt
Italian middle age n → mezza età
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And how inexpressibly sad it was to hear him prattling on of the ideal life, of socialism, of Walt Whitman and what not,--all the dear old quackeries,--while I was already settling down comfortably to a conservative middle age.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
The dashing young frigate captain, the man who in middle age was nothing loth to give chase single-handed in his seventy-four to a whole fleet, the man of enterprise and consummate judgment, the old Admiral of the Fleet, the good and trusted servant of his country under two kings and a queen, had felt correctly Nelson's influence, and expressed himself with precision out of the fulness of his seaman's heart.
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There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago.
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