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[ mid-l-eyjd ] / ˈmɪd lˈeɪdʒd /
adjectivebeing of the age intermediate between youth and old age, roughly between 45 and 65. characteristic of or suitable for persons of this age. Origin of middle-agedFirst recorded in 1600–10 OTHER WORDS FROM middle-agedmid·dle-a·ged·ly [mid-l-ey-jid-lee, -eyjd-], /ˈmɪd lˈeɪ dʒɪd li, -ˈeɪdʒd-/, adverbmid·dle-a·ged·ness, nounWords nearby middle-agedmiddelskot, midden, middie, middle, middle age, middle-aged, Middle Ages, middle-age spread, Middle America, Middle American, middle artery of knee Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for middle-agedNothing says class like a middle-aged woman shaming two teenaged girls on social media for not being Stepford Children! GOP Flack Throws Shade at First Teens|Olivia Nuzzi|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Middle-aged, out-of-shape Putin sat idle and silent as his dreams and hopes for the future were destroyed. How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin|Masha Gessen|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST From 1992 and 2007, the number of middle-aged women who checked into rehab nearly tripled. Elizabeth Peña and the Truth About Alcoholic Women|Gabrielle Glaser|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST The most astonishing came from Ron and Mavis Pirola, a middle-aged Australian couple who have been together for 57 years. The Vatican's Same-Sex Synod: The Bishops Hear About Reality. Do They Listen?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He declined to give his name and handed me off to his companion, Diana Castillo, a middle-aged woman who told me she was 35. Rand Paul’s Fans Hate His ISIS Plan|Olivia Nuzzi|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the more progressive communities are not the middle-aged and young married people in control? The Farmer and His Community|Dwight Sanderson He is middle-aged and wears somewhat ill fitting brown fur, tinged with gray, and horn-rimmed spectacles. Seeing Things at Night|Heywood Broun All were middle-aged, except one young lieutenant, and we were indeed a rather exceptionally un-neurotic and stodgy lot. Psychical Miscellanea|J. Arthur Hill He also hired a middle-aged printer who agreed to come to Rolfe and work for $18 a week. Helen in the Editor's Chair|Ruthe S. Wheeler Many of the middle-aged disciples of the Church of Common-sense are still in our midst.
British Dictionary definitions for middle-aged
adjectiveof, relating to, or being in the time in a person's life between youth and old age Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |