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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of middle aged in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of middle aged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of middle aged in a Sentence
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
This whole debate should encourage more, if you look at the board it is predominantly middle-aged white men from Europe. We have more diversity on the board now than we have had for a long time, and we have to strive to improve that situation.
I think of it as we’re going down a river as we age, when we’re young adults or middle aged, we’re pretty much in the same boat, but then with aging the stream splits up( and) we start zigging and zagging on different pathways.
The whole situation is crazy, before we put in a measure, we have to think how it's going to affect all the people in our society -- women, children, minorities, homeless people... this has not happened, the measures have been put in for and by middle-aged men who are not thinking about anyone else.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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