middle-aged man
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2.1
- noun
:
hombre de mediana edad
- Then he saw the poker game: five grizzled, middle-aged men sitting around a card table.
But like he, she now looks like a a balding middle-aged man.
- But like he, she now looks like a a balding middle-aged man.
- It's really an office for middle-aged men.
- So she gets to the door, the gate, and she knocks and a middle-aged man stands there and says what can I do for you?
- Or I might wish to have my hair cut by a slightly distracted middle-aged man who insists on telling me for the fifth time about his childhood in Turkey.
- And I said the drug addict middle-aged man in the mental institution.
- So he's kind of frozen in time in in the body of the of the middle-aged man.
- It's like you never just take photos of your childhood kitchen thinking when you're a middle-aged man, you it will trigger so many memories.
- Plus if you're a middle-aged man trying to UN rename your old high school, you don't have much.
Examples
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The office door opens in the background, and a short middle-aged man in a dark suit emerges.
Fiction book (1991) -
A line of exhausted, bleary-eyed middle-aged men in expensive suits and in need of a shave.
Fiction book (1997) -
For your information, I am not a middle-aged man.
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"You two sure were lucky," a middle-aged man in the crowd called out.
Fiction book (1993) -
In 1997, I was a quiet middle-aged man knocking on 40.
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Morgan, I'm a middle-aged man who never leaves the house.
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I'm an overweight, middle-aged man.
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Her companion, I noticed, was a handsome middle-aged man who seemed very tall and strongly built.
Fiction book (1991) -
I once observed an encounter between a well-dressed middle-aged man and a young, dirty street girl.
Academic text (2009) -
The middle-aged man enjoyed telling stories about his youth to his grandchildren.
Synonyms
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3.2
Being between forty and forty-nine years old
A person between fifty and fifty-nine years old
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'middle-aged' (describing someone in midlife) with 'man' (an adult male), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to an adult male in the middle-age period. This is a straightforward adjective+noun composition common across languages and does not require idiomatic or metaphorical knowledge.
Etymology
Middle-aged man shows a middle-aged man standing in the middle of life, not young and not old. That's why it means 'a man about 45 to 65 years old'.