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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. Jeffrey Otto:

    Alright, so I watched it park, and it's actually a middle-aged Asian guy that got out. So yeah, it's going to be nothing.

  2. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

    The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  3. 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.

  4. Zodwa Madiba:

    At that time people were fighting apartheid, so they didn't pay. Now, they just don't have money. Young, old and middle aged, there are no jobs. People are depending on grants from their granny.

  5. Confucius:

    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.

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