Definition of Middle age

1. Noun. The time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age).

Generic synonyms: Time Of Life
Group relationships: Adulthood, Maturity
Terms within: Change Of Life, Climacteric, Menopause, Climacteric

Definition of Middle age

1. Noun. the period of life between youth and old age; midlife ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Age

middle-clicked
middle-clicking
middle-clicks
middle-ear deafness
middle-end
middle-finger
middle-level
middle-of-the-road
middle-of-the-roader
middle-of-the-roadness
middle-sized
middle Atlantic
middle C
middle C's
middle Cs
middle age (current term)
middle atlantoepistrophic joint
middle axillary line
middle bodies
middle body
middle buster
middle cardiac vein
middle carpal joint
middle cells
middle cerebellar peduncle
middle cerebral artery
middle cerebral vein
middle cervical cardiac nerve
middle cervical fascia
middle cervical ganglion

Literary usage of Middle age

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"middle age attains to a maturity of emotion as well as to a maturity of intellect ... A pleasanter theme is the pious aspirations of middle age, with their ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"Thus they extended the middle age of the Latin language to a period ... Thus the middle age of Latinity became synonymous with declining Latinity. ..."

3. The Story of Rome by Norwood Young (1910)
"The middle age is the age which lies in the middle,', between the classic and the modern. The classic \ world was on its death-bed in the fourth century, ..."

4. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"As Spain, later on, renewing the middle-age, after having shone splendidly and foolishly by her chivalry and devotion, by Lope de Vega and Calderon, ..."

5. Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford (1922)
"CHAPTER III THE middle age: TRANSITION FROM MINOAN TO HELLENIC LIFE About 1200-750 AT the time when migratory warriors were raiding the Egyptian Delta and ..."

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