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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
What's been most surprising isn't necessarily that the overall numbers have increased but that the cohort that is most impacted has changed, there's a newfound high-risk group: middle-aged adults; that's adults from about the age of 45 to 59 in the US, who previously had not been thought to be at high risk for mental illness or suicide, and now we're finding that they are.
This could be one example where a less common genetic variation causes limited disease in the young and middle-aged, but reduces resilience and causes susceptibility to multiple diseases later in life, identifying more of these genetic variants may lead to new treatment targets to ultimately improve health and function in old age.
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.
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.
You had a middle-aged, single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap: a ready-made family! A gorgeous woman I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out, and then it became the story of a divorced woman with two young teenage girls being raised by a handyman.
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