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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

Meaning of "middle age" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MIDDLE AGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIDDLE AGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Middle age is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MIDDLE AGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Middle age

Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age. Various attempts have been made to define this age, which is around the third quarter of the average life span of human beings.

Definition of middle age in the English dictionary

The definition of middle age in the dictionary is the period of life between youth and old age, usually considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIDDLE AGE

middies
middle
Middle Ages
Middle America
Middle American
Middle Atlantic States
middle C
middle class
middle common room
Middle Congo
middle course
middle distance
Middle Dutch
middle ear
Middle East
Middle Eastern
middle eight
Middle England
Middle English
middle finger

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIDDLE AGE

bronze age
coming of age
computer age
dark age
electronic age
golden age
ice age
in this day and age
information age
iron age
machine age
of age
old age
reading age
retirement age
school age
space age
the atomic age
the jazz age
under age

Synonyms and antonyms of middle age in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «middle age» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIDDLE AGE

Find out the translation of middle age to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of middle age from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «middle age» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中年
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

madurez
570 millions of speakers

English

middle age
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मध्यम आयु
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منتصف العمر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

среднего возраста
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meia-idade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মধ্যবয়স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cinquantaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

pertengahan umur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mittleres Lebensalter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中年
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중년
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tengah umur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuổi trung niên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடுத்தர வயது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्यम वयाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

orta Çağ
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezza età
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

średnim wieku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

середнього віку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vârsta de mijloc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέση ηλικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Midde- jarige ouderdom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

medelåldern
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

middelaldrende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of middle age

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE AGE»

The term «middle age» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.258 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE AGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about middle age

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10 QUOTES WITH «MIDDLE AGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word middle age.
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Franklin Pierce Adams
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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J. G. Ballard
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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Candice Bergen
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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Candice Bergen
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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Anne Bradstreet
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Gerald Brenan
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Julie Burchill
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
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Lillian Gordy Carter
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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Bennett Cerf
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLE AGE»

Discover the use of middle age in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to middle age and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Middle Age: A Romance: A Romance
In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged.
Joyce Carol Oates, 2009
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Middle Age: A Natural History
Middle Age will change the way you think about mid-life, and help turn the 'crisis' into a cause for celebration.
David Bainbridge, 2012
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Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology
A wide-ranging selection of readings, emphasizing the social and psychological processes occurring between middle age and old age and drawing on empirical studies and studies in which the research methods are clearly presented
Bernice L. Neugarten, 1968
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In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
From the "New York Times" reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age, from the late 19th century when the term "midlife" first entered the dictionary to ...
Patricia Cohen, 2012
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Life in the Middle: Psychological and Social Development in ...
Coverage includes individual development in middle age from the psychological and biological perspectives as well as the sociocultural context in which middle-aged individuals live and work, including physical health in mid-life, ...
Sherry L. Willis, James B. Reid, 1998
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Middle age
In Middle Age, the philosopher Christopher Hamilton explores the moods, emotions and experiences of middle age, seeking to describe and analyse that period of life philosophically.
Christopher Hamilton, 2009
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Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the ...
Recounts how the author, after realizing the daunting state of his health at age forty, overcame physical challenges and alcoholism over the course of two years while training for Hawaii's elite Ultraman competition.
Rich Roll, 2013
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Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)
In this volume, anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and historians explore topics ranging from the Western ideology of "midlife decline" to cultural representations of mature adulthood that operate without the category of middle age.
Richard A. Shweder, 1998
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Middle Age Renaissance: Body, Mind, and Spirit
InMiddle Age Renaissance, author Doug Brooks shows how middle age can be the time to think about pursuing positive change and taking the opportunity to renew yourself for today and all of your tomorrows—for yourself and those who care ...
Doug Brooks, 2012
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Middle Age Spread: A For Better Or For Worse Collection
Cartoons offer a humorous look at family life, college, adolescence, middle age, and other events in the life of the Patterson family
Lynn Johnston, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLE AGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term middle age is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poor Sleep in Late Middle Age Linked to Amyloid Plaques in Brain
Older adults who slept poorly and often felt tired also had higher deposits of amyloid plaques in the brain, a condition thought to mark the ... «Sleep Review, Jul 15»
2
Middle age suits me just fine
Ageing. Looks fading. Tight faded denim jeans that have shrunk in the wash no longer the look. Just boring old tents and sacks, which is all that ... «Eureka Street, Jul 15»
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Physical inactivity and TV watching in young adults linked to lower …
... the cognitive tests in middle age. Those who reported both low physical activity and high television viewing were almost two times more likely ... «Alzheimer's Society, Jul 15»
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Having high blood pressure in middle age puts you at greater risk of …
People with high blood pressure when they are aged 50 may be more likely to suffer from dementia later in life. A study, released in the Journal ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Reflections on reaching middle age
middle age EDMONTON, AB Jul 11, 2015/ Troy Media/ – I am a middle-aged man. There, I have said it. I have alluded to the not-so-stealthy ... «Troy Media, Jul 15»
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When the impulse to be thin never grows old: Middle-aged women …
Now, as the first wave enters middle age, experts are discovering the impulse ... Increasing numbers of women in middle age are also seeking ... «National Post, Jul 15»
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Poor sleep in late middle age linked to plaques in the brain
Older adults who slept poorly and often felt tired also had higher deposits of amyloid plaques in the brain, a condition thought to mark the ... «hngnews.com, Jul 15»
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The Best Part of Middle Age: Letting Go of Shame
And yet one of the wonderful byproducts of middle age, I've found, is the way we manage, process and are often able to rid ourselves of the ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
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Jenny Eclair talks HRT, stage fright and the perils of facing middle age
"It's about the fury of middle age and what you can do about it. I had to go on HRT because my anger issues became insane. I was dangerous. «BT.com, Jul 15»
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Pips not so much squeaking as screaming for the squeezed middle …
Experiencing a squeezed middle age can happen to anyone, well off or poor, though it is far easier to cope if you are the former. Overall, the middle-aged are ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»

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