mid-fifties
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An age between about 53 and 57 years
- noun
- /mɪd ˈfɪftiːz/
:
mediados de los cincuenta
- His father is in his mid-fifties and still enjoys hiking every weekend.
Examples
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In the mid-fifties, people were staying home to watch television.
Fiction book (1999) -
By the mid-fifties, it had become widespread.
Academic text (1990) -
For all these reasons, by the mid-fifties, psychoanalysts were clearly among the port city's most prestigious professionals.
Academic text (1990) -
People in their mid-fifties often reflect on their career achievements.
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By the time she reached her mid-fifties, she had traveled to over thirty countries.
Synonyms
fifties
vsmid-fifties
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2.0
The years when a person is between 50 and 59
is the same time span but expressed as a different phrase
fiftysomething
vsmid-fifties
4.6
A person between fifty and fifty-nine years old
refers to the time period rather than an individual
How Old
mid-fifties
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fifties
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Surface Forms
mid-fifties singular
mid-fifties plural
Morphology
Etymology
Mid-fifties combines mid- meaning 'middle' and fifty meaning '50', so it names the middle part of the 50s. Being in your mid-fifties means you are in the years around the middle of the ten-year period from 50 to 60.