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middle age

noun

the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.

middle age

noun

the period of life between youth and old age, usually (in man) considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60

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Word History and Origins

Origin of middle age¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Where other hobbies may be difficult to pick up in middle age, comedy, with its low entrance fee and ubiquitous nature, is an inherently accessible art form.

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To be sure, an assassin’s bullets robbed Lennon and McCartney of any hope for establishing a new and abiding friendship in middle age.

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But, in middle age, his career spiked again.

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She added that its central theme, of struggling to make your career work as a woman in later middle age, was something "many generations of women" had faced.

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Now they hate people who represent a successful middle age of having a stable job that means something to the world.

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midlife

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