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middle-aged

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English

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/,/ˈmɪdl̩ˌeɪd͡ʒd/
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Adjective

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middle-aged (comparativemoremiddle-aged,superlativemostmiddle-aged)

  1. (not comparable) Of or relating tomiddle age or amiddle-ager; neitherold noryoung.
    The person of interest is amiddle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
    • 1676, Rigaud, quoting Collins,Corr. Sci. Men, volume II, published1841, page453:
      The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yetmiddle aged.
    • 1709, Steele,Tatler,№ 77,¶ 2:
      When I was amiddle-aged Man.
    • 1843,Charles Dickens,A Christmas Carol:
      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 othermiddle-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.
    • 1880, G. Meredith,Tragic Com., published1881, page81:
      Amiddle-aged, grave and honourable man.
    1. (comparable) Characteristic of middle-aged people.
      Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a littlemiddle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.
      • 1886, Lowell,Gray, inLatest Lit. Ess., published1891, page 2:
        Cowper was really mad at intervals, but his poetry, admirable as it is in its ownmiddle-aged way, is in need of anything rather than a strait-waistcoat.
      • 1887, Ruskin,Præterita, volume II, page269:
        His already almostmiddle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.
  2. (obsolete, not comparable) Belonging to theMiddle Ages;medieval.
    • 1710, Hearne,Collect. (O.H.S.), volume III, page49:
      The reading and perusing ofmiddle-ag’d Antiquities.
    • 1804, Mitford,Inquiry, page318:
      Of the modern andmiddle-aged Greek.
    • 1845,Proc. Philol. Soc., volume II, page145:
      The Englishhunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanishhambre, formed from themiddle-aged Latinfamina.

Translations

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of or relating to middle age
belonging to the Middle Ages—seemedieval

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