middle-aged
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2.6
- adjective
- /ˈmɪdəlˌeɪdʒd/
:
de mediana edad
- My parents are middle-aged now, and they often discuss their retirement plans.
- middle-aged people
- middle-aged adults
- middle-aged women
The aggrieved people were young and middle-aged white men.
- The aggrieved people were young and middle-aged white men.
- Speaking of funny middle-aged white guys, keep it going.
- But she should be, you know, youngish, middle-aged maybe.
- He's like, I, you know, I'm a middle-aged guy.
- I've had it with the middle-aged white men on airplanes who leave the window open.
- Most of the audience seem like they were middle-aged Jews and sure enough, do you believe in God?
- I might get shocked for saying this, Harry, but you're seeing a lot of middle-aged white men getting unemployed very quickly.
Examples
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In the play, we see what it can mean to be middle-aged and to lose a job.
Academic text (1990) -
The office door opens in the background, and a short middle-aged man in a dark suit emerges.
Fiction book (1991) -
And she was a middle-aged woman, kind of fat.
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You are learning a lot about middle-aged women, right?
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I am now middle-aged, not young, right?
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In China, it's the the middle-aged guys who are saving more and more.
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Her companion, I noticed, was a handsome middle-aged man who seemed very tall and strongly built.
Fiction book (1991) -
Two other men came over, one heavyset and middle-aged, the other somewhat younger and very thin.
Fiction book (1990) -
We get a geek, an overweight middle-aged guy, some nerdy scientific type.
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It was my own middle-aged vanity that made me attempt what only a youth can do.
Synonyms
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7.2
A polite way to talk about someone who is not young, often middle-aged
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2.2
A period of life between about 40 and 60 years old
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3.3
About forty years old in appearance
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3.2
Being between forty and forty-nine years old
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1.0
The years in a person's life between ages 40 and 49
A person between fifty and fifty-nine years old
Time in life when someone is about 44 to 46 years old
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Middle-aged comes from putting together middle 'in the middle' and aged from age 'years' or 'having age'. So it means being in the middle part of life, about 45 to 65 years old.