middle-aged
adj/ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/ · /ˈmɪdl̩ˌeɪd͡ʒd/
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Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.
- The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
- The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.1676, Rigaud, quoting Collins, Corr. Sci. Men, volume II, published 1841, page 453:
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- When I was a middle-aged Man.1709, Steele, Tatler, № 77, ¶ 2:
- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son’s weak mind.1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
- A middle-aged, grave and honourable man.1880, G. Meredith, Tragic Com., published 1881, page 81:
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Characteristic of middle-aged people.
- Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.
- Cowper was really mad at intervals, but his poetry, admirable as it is in its own middle-aged way, is in need of anything rather than a strait-waistcoat.1886, Lowell, Gray, in Latest Lit. Ess., published 1891, page 2:
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- His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.1887, Ruskin, Præterita, volume II, page 269:
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Obsolete Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.
- The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.1710, Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), volume III, page 49:
- Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.1804, Mitford, Inquiry, page 318:
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- The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina.1845, Proc. Philol. Soc., volume II, page 145:
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- middle-agedness