middle age meaning: definition, quotations

middle age

nounalso spelled middle-age

The period of life directly preceding old age, often defined roughly as ages 45–65; midlife.

The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Times:

adj

Attributive form of Middle Ages.

With the same precaution that they would have consorted with the evil spirits of middle-age romance.1840, Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., volume V, page 31:
That child is working in the middle-age spirit — the other in the modern spirit.1853, Ruskin, Lect. Archit., chapter iv, page 217:

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Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.1869, F. W. Newman, Misc., page 46:

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