Middle age is the years between youth and old age. Reach middle age, a man in middle age.
Roughly forty-five to sixty-five is the usual span, and everybody puts it a decade later than they used to. Middle age is different from the Middle Ages, which is a period of history.
1nounmiddle ageThe years between youth and old age.
“He took up running in middle age and never stopped.”
middle age is a period.
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