middle age
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈmɪdəl eɪdʒ/
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- The one thing that I've learned of the course of a career and I'm now in middle age is the people in my life matter more than I thought they did.
We just have to look generically late middle age and not be offensive to look at.
- We just have to look generically late middle age and not be offensive to look at.
- After that the difference is basically disappears, so that by middle age there are not really profound sex differences.
- They don't really care what we did today usually, but they want us there, leading boring middle age lives and available should we be needed.
- He's like a shortish, rough looking tattoos, you know, sort of balding, sort of, you know, a middle age sort of guy.
- There are many people that leave their jobs, like in middle age, let's say, and then go on to do something that they actually want to do.
- That's right through middle age metabolism is designed to be rock stable, does not change, doesn't decrease by itself.
- The I'm I'm at an age it's it's part of middle age.
- So stop by and see what happens when you mix vehicles, alcohol, and middle age despair.
Examples
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People in middle age hitting that particular point, are there any books that you would recommend they read?
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There are many people that leave their jobs, like in middle age, let's say, and then go on to do something that they actually want to do.
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In the bed were a man and a woman of late middle age.
Fiction book (1992) -
But how can I leave a place where I lived until middle age?
Fiction book (1992) -
Today there were two more disciples, one of middle age and the other a young fellow.
Fiction book (1992) -
You know what I've come to think in my middle age, Max?
Fiction book (1992) -
Not until he was well into middle age, however, would he be able to devote himself fully to art.
Academic text (1999) -
What makes a man in the thicket of middle age suddenly rediscover himself with the wonder of a child?
Fiction book (1993) -
A man of middle-age, understandably concerned more with the menu than the music.
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Many people find new passions and hobbies during middle age, discovering interests they never had before.
Synonyms
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3.9
Happening in the middle of a person's adult life
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the period of life between young adulthood and old age' is directly derivable from combining 'middle' (in-between) with 'age' (a period of life). This compositional interpretation is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Middle age comes from the simple idea of being in the middle of your age, like standing halfway along a road between youth and old age. So it means the years 'between young adulthood and old age', about '40 and 60 years old'.