middle-aged
mid-uhl-AYJD/ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/
- 1Being neither young nor old, but somewhere in the middle part of life.
Like the middle of a long road: not at the start and not near the end.
My uncle is middle-aged, but he still plays soccer every weekend.
A group of middle-aged hikers set off up the trail at dawn.
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- 2Having the looks, habits, or attitudes that are typical of people in middle age.
His middle-aged taste in music made his teenage kids groan.
Even at twenty-five, she had a middle-aged way of worrying about everything.
Similarstaid, sedate, conservative
Oppositeyouthful
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- 3Belonging to the Middle Ages, the long stretch of European history before modern times.
Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.
1804, Mitford, InquiryHere, middle-aged means from the Middle Ages, the medieval period.The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
1710, Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.)Here, middle-ag'd means from the Middle Ages, the medieval period.Note
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