middle-agedadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdlˈeɪdʒd/, U.S.

/ˌmɪd(ə)lˈeɪdʒd/

Forms: see middle adj. and n. and aged adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: middle age n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: < middle age n. + -ed suffix². Compare slightly later mid-aged adj.

A. adj.

a. Of a person: in middle age; resembling a person in middle age; occurring in middle age. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [adjective]

middle-aged1536

mid-aged1556

middling1610

mid-age1845

medieval1848

mid-life1858

middle-ageing1882

1536 J. Basset Let. 12 Mar. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/10/13) f. 13^v He wyll mend your bedyng & oder such stoff..if hit schall so plesse you so for to take hem a meddle Agide man.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 73 The elder looke to the family, placing in due order that hony which is gathered and wrought by the middle-aged Bees.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. T7^v He was a middle-aged man, as about forty yeares old.

1676 J. Collins Let. 24 Oct. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 453 The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋2 When I was a middle-aged Man.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I Mrs. Cole, a middleaged discreet sort of woman.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 446 A middle aged man, of the name of Robinson..was wounded by a grape shot.

1845 C. Brontë Let. 21 June (1995) I. 401 I am a middle-aged person and she is a young lady.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. v. 99 A middle-aged, grave and honourable man.

1918 W. Owen Let. 22 July (1967) 566 I have no unused boots with me, but I left a delicate middle-aged pair in the Kitchen Cupboard.

1927 C. Mackenzie Vestal Fire i. iii The éclairs of the Villa Amabile would..not discharge stale custard like those dreadful waistless middle-aged éclairs you had met in some houses.

1951 V. Nabokov Let. 12 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 128 I am engaged in the composition of a novel, which deals with the problems of a very moral middle-aged gentleman who falls very immorally in love with his stepdaughter.

1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye vii. 150 The chief barmaid had a tiny nose and a big chin; she was a middle-aged woman of twenty-five.

1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 124/1 There is nothing in it but a half-empty clothing rack, a phlegmatic potted palm, and..two middle-aged sofas.

b. Characteristic of middle-aged people. Cf. middle age n. 2. middle-aged spread n. the fat that may accumulate round the abdomen in middle age, producing paunchiness; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective]

slowc1384

imperturbablea1475

sober-minded1534

well-staid1550

settled1557

sober1564

steady1602

unprovokable1646

good-tempered1685

inirritable1794

well-adjusted1809

unvolatile1823

inexcitable1828

unrufflable1828

churchwardenly1830

unruffable1837

unexcitable1839

unrousable1842

well-tempered1852

middle-aged1853

unsqueamish1893

unflappable1958

the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [adjective] > characteristic of middle-aged people

middle-aged1853

middle age1898

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique

pumpkin1680

roundabout1809

middle-aged spread1883

spread1883

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford ix. 164 I bought her a pretty, neat, middle-aged cap.

1883 Nat. Temperance Mirror Aug. 187/1 What my irrepressible cousin Bob coarsely terms ‘the middle aged spread’, has only not begun because I am one of the lean kine and incline to scragginess rather than to Rubenesque fleshiness.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 269 His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.

1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) xv. 768 Impermanence is the lot of all encyclopædias, and though the Britannica..shows now these marks of advanced maturity, of ‘middle-aged spread’, there is no reason for supposing that the spirit of Diderot is dead.

a1941 V. Woolf Together & Apart in Haunted House (1967) 134 The thunder roused her from her plethoric middle-aged swoon of indifference.

1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) ii. 43 Erase that middle-aged spread.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top i. 7 I hadn't then begun to acquire a middle-aged spread.

1962 Listener 20 Sept. 450/1 That impish sense of the ridiculous..which..will always stop ‘Tonight’ from acquiring the pompous middle-aged spread that so often accompanies success.

1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. iii. 82 He's still wiry, with just a slight touch of middle-aged flab.

1990 P. Edwards Blood Brothers ii. xii. 84 His favorite places were busy, aggressive marble-and-brass shrines to red meat and middle-aged, masculine chic; arriviste steakhouses where there was respect for Rolexes and expensive toupées.

2. Belonging to or characteristic of the Middle Ages, medieval; = middle age n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of the Middle Ages

middle-aged1611

Gothic1695

middle age1753

medieval1817

mid-eval1840

1611 T. James Treat. Corruption Script. Advt. to Christian Reader, sig. *2 The open or secret wrongs done vnto Fathers, auncient, middle-aged, or moderne writers, by the Papists.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 49 The reading and perusing of middle-ag'd Antiquities.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Ambrosin In middle aged writers, denotes a coin..whereon was represented St. Ambrose on horseback.

1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 318 Of the modern and middle aged Greek.

1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 145 The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina.

1852 Househ. Words 30 Oct. 191/2 Old vellum-covered tomes of middle-aged history.

1900 Brit. Architect 9 Nov. 337/2 Various territorial magnates considered that it was due to their ancestry that they should be living in middle-aged castles, and, therefore, transformed their Georgian dwellings into battlemented and machicolated imitations of the defences of the Barons.

B. n.

(With plural agreement) middle-aged people as a class; usually with the. Also in plural (rare): middle-aged people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun]

mid-age1609

middle-aged1621

middle-ager1930

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 473 Widdowers, Batchelers, all were alike to be denyed; old, young, middle-aged runne one race of being refused.

1647 J. Abbot Devout Rhapsodies iii. 20 Involving in the same calamity, The old, the middle aged, and the Frie.

1776 D. Garrick Let. 9 Nov. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 43 I told your Ladyship how the young Ladies were to be dress'd—the middle ag'd are to have something less brilliant.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 58 Turning his veiled face from one group to another, he paid due reverence to the hoary heads, saluted the middle-aged with kind dignity.

1896 Daily News 25 Apr. 5/1 ‘Hermitism’ is rule of life for the middle-aged in India.

1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxii Those little persistent wrinkles which seem to show that the middle-aged are facing something hard which the young do not see.

1975 Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 21/3 There are enough middle-ageds around to push up last year's sales 22 pc.

1998 Independent 28 May i. 19/4 Good advice to the middle-aged often involves ‘re-inventing yourself’.

Derivatives

ˌmiddle-ˈagedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > quality of being

middle-agedness1881

1881 A. R. Ellis Sylvestra II. 261 That middle-agedness some men show so early.

1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 225/2 Sandy,..I hope, managed to feel young and sentimental in spite of the chilliness and our middle-agedness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	middle-aged
释义	middle-agedadj.n. Brit. /ˌmɪdlˈeɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˌmɪd(ə)lˈeɪdʒd/ Forms: see middle adj. and n. and aged adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: middle age n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < middle age n. + -ed suffix². Compare slightly later mid-aged adj. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person: in middle age; resembling a person in middle age; occurring in middle age. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [adjective] middle-aged1536 mid-aged1556 middling1610 mid-age1845 medieval1848 mid-life1858 middle-ageing1882 1536 J. Basset Let. 12 Mar. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/10/13) f. 13^v He wyll mend your bedyng & oder such stoff..if hit schall so plesse you so for to take hem a meddle Agide man. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 73 The elder looke to the family, placing in due order that hony which is gathered and wrought by the middle-aged Bees. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. T7^v He was a middle-aged man, as about forty yeares old. 1676 J. Collins Let. 24 Oct. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 453 The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋2 When I was a middle-aged Man. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I Mrs. Cole, a middleaged discreet sort of woman. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 446 A middle aged man, of the name of Robinson..was wounded by a grape shot. 1845 C. Brontë Let. 21 June (1995) I. 401 I am a middle-aged person and she is a young lady. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. v. 99 A middle-aged, grave and honourable man. 1918 W. Owen Let. 22 July (1967) 566 I have no unused boots with me, but I left a delicate middle-aged pair in the Kitchen Cupboard. 1927 C. Mackenzie Vestal Fire i. iii The éclairs of the Villa Amabile would..not discharge stale custard like those dreadful waistless middle-aged éclairs you had met in some houses. 1951 V. Nabokov Let. 12 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 128 I am engaged in the composition of a novel, which deals with the problems of a very moral middle-aged gentleman who falls very immorally in love with his stepdaughter. 1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye vii. 150 The chief barmaid had a tiny nose and a big chin; she was a middle-aged woman of twenty-five. 1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 124/1 There is nothing in it but a half-empty clothing rack, a phlegmatic potted palm, and..two middle-aged sofas. b. Characteristic of middle-aged people. Cf. middle age n. 2. middle-aged spread n. the fat that may accumulate round the abdomen in middle age, producing paunchiness; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective] slowc1384 imperturbablea1475 sober-minded1534 well-staid1550 settled1557 sober1564 steady1602 unprovokable1646 good-tempered1685 inirritable1794 well-adjusted1809 unvolatile1823 inexcitable1828 unrufflable1828 churchwardenly1830 unruffable1837 unexcitable1839 unrousable1842 well-tempered1852 middle-aged1853 unsqueamish1893 unflappable1958 the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [adjective] > characteristic of middle-aged people middle-aged1853 middle age1898 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique pumpkin1680 roundabout1809 middle-aged spread1883 spread1883 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford ix. 164 I bought her a pretty, neat, middle-aged cap. 1883 Nat. Temperance Mirror Aug. 187/1 What my irrepressible cousin Bob coarsely terms ‘the middle aged spread’, has only not begun because I am one of the lean kine and incline to scragginess rather than to Rubenesque fleshiness. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 269 His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity. 1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) xv. 768 Impermanence is the lot of all encyclopædias, and though the Britannica..shows now these marks of advanced maturity, of ‘middle-aged spread’, there is no reason for supposing that the spirit of Diderot is dead. a1941 V. Woolf Together & Apart in Haunted House (1967) 134 The thunder roused her from her plethoric middle-aged swoon of indifference. 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) ii. 43 Erase that middle-aged spread. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top i. 7 I hadn't then begun to acquire a middle-aged spread. 1962 Listener 20 Sept. 450/1 That impish sense of the ridiculous..which..will always stop ‘Tonight’ from acquiring the pompous middle-aged spread that so often accompanies success. 1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. iii. 82 He's still wiry, with just a slight touch of middle-aged flab. 1990 P. Edwards Blood Brothers ii. xii. 84 His favorite places were busy, aggressive marble-and-brass shrines to red meat and middle-aged, masculine chic; arriviste steakhouses where there was respect for Rolexes and expensive toupées. 2. Belonging to or characteristic of the Middle Ages, medieval; = middle age n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of the Middle Ages middle-aged1611 Gothic1695 middle age1753 medieval1817 mid-eval1840 1611 T. James Treat. Corruption Script. Advt. to Christian Reader, sig. 2 The open or secret wrongs done vnto Fathers, auncient, middle-aged, or moderne writers, by the Papists. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll.* (1889) III. 49 The reading and perusing of middle-ag'd Antiquities. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Ambrosin In middle aged writers, denotes a coin..whereon was represented St. Ambrose on horseback. 1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 318 Of the modern and middle aged Greek. 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 145 The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina. 1852 Househ. Words 30 Oct. 191/2 Old vellum-covered tomes of middle-aged history. 1900 Brit. Architect 9 Nov. 337/2 Various territorial magnates considered that it was due to their ancestry that they should be living in middle-aged castles, and, therefore, transformed their Georgian dwellings into battlemented and machicolated imitations of the defences of the Barons. B. n. (With plural agreement) middle-aged people as a class; usually with the. Also in plural (rare): middle-aged people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] mid-age1609 middle-aged1621 middle-ager1930 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 473 Widdowers, Batchelers, all were alike to be denyed; old, young, middle-aged runne one race of being refused. 1647 J. Abbot Devout Rhapsodies iii. 20 Involving in the same calamity, The old, the middle aged, and the Frie. 1776 D. Garrick Let. 9 Nov. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 43 I told your Ladyship how the young Ladies were to be dress'd—the middle ag'd are to have something less brilliant. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 58 Turning his veiled face from one group to another, he paid due reverence to the hoary heads, saluted the middle-aged with kind dignity. 1896 Daily News 25 Apr. 5/1 ‘Hermitism’ is rule of life for the middle-aged in India. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxii Those little persistent wrinkles which seem to show that the middle-aged are facing something hard which the young do not see. 1975 Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 21/3 There are enough middle-ageds around to push up last year's sales 22 pc. 1998 Independent 28 May i. 19/4 Good advice to the middle-aged often involves ‘re-inventing yourself’. Derivatives ˌmiddle-ˈagedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > quality of being middle-agedness1881 1881 A. R. Ellis Sylvestra II. 261 That middle-agedness some men show so early. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 225/2 Sandy,..I hope, managed to feel young and sentimental in spite of the chilliness and our middle-agedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1536
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