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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Middle-agedadjective

    Placed about the middle of life.

    Etymology: middle and age.

    A middle-aged man, that was half grey, half brown, took a fancy to marry two wives. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

    The middle-aged support fasting the best, because of the oily parts abounding in the blood. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

    I found you a very young man, and left you a middle-aged one: you knew me a middle-aged man, and now I am an old one. Jonathan Swift, to Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. middle aged

    Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age. The exact range is disputed and can be considered of arbitrary nature, but the general consensus has placed middle age as the age range from around 40 until 60, with about 5 years of leeway on either side. This phase of life is marked by gradual physical, cognitive, and social changes in individuals as they age.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of middle aged in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of middle aged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of middle aged in a Sentence

  1. Joshua Grubbs:

    Middle-aged and younger adults have complained about how disrespectful younger generations were, how risque they were, how immoral they were, how lazy they were, or how unwise they were – this is sort of the natural order of things, however, the millennial generation is the first real generation to face that criticism in the digital age, where hot takes and instant opinions are ubiquitous.

  2. Luigi Ferrucci:

    This could be one example where a less common genetic variation causes limited disease in the young and middle-aged, but reduces resilience and causes susceptibility to multiple diseases later in life, identifying more of these genetic variants may lead to new treatment targets to ultimately improve health and function in old age.

  3. Kim Hubbard:

    Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  4. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly:

    I think Flagler County would shock the country to understand that Flagler County goes from teenagers to middle-aged people, people that you would not expect to be taking any type of drug. There's no specific demographic, no specific wealth involved here, it’s an invasion of America by killing our residents, our citizens, because we’re not controlling the fentanyl coming across the border.

  5. Anne Schuchat:

    We saw higher increases among middle-aged people, but we did see increases in younger people and older people – essentially every age group other than those over age 75 saw increasing rates of suicide during this time period.

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