Middle-aged means somewhere between about forty and sixty. The definition moves upwards as the person using it gets older.
That is only half a joke, since surveys show people consistently place the start of middle age just beyond wherever they are. The phrase middle-aged spread names the weight that arrives with a slowing metabolism. It goes before a noun with a hyphen. The noun is middle age, written as two words, and midlife is the modern alternative, chiefly in the phrase midlife crisis.
1adjectivemiddle-agedAged between about forty and sixty.
“A middle-aged couple were waiting at the desk.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.
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