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MIDDLE AGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("middle age" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "middle age"):
change of life; climacteric; menopause (the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends)
climacteric (a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause)
Holonyms ("middle age" is a part of...):
adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)
Context examples:
A brain disorder that usually starts in late middle age or old age and gets worse over time.
(Alzheimer dementia, NCI Dictionary)
Moreover, the shift from deep, consolidated sleep in youth to fitful, dissatisfying sleep can start as early as one's 30s, paving the way for sleep-related cognitive and physical ailments in middle age.
(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The other, dark, clear-cut, and elegant, hardly yet of middle age, and endowed with every beauty of body and of mind, was the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, Secretary for European Affairs, and the most rising statesman in the country.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes plucked it off and disclosed the statuesque face of a handsome and spiritual woman of middle age.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a thin, gruff, bespectacled man of middle age, his cheeks haggard, and his hands twitching from the nervous strain to which he had been subjected.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange change, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
