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MIDDLE-AGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being roughly between 45 and 65 years old
Classified under:
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
Context examples:
He seemed to be a middle-aged man, with a short, dark beard.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I found Mr. Waterbrook to be a middle-aged gentleman, with a short throat, and a good deal of shirt-collar, who only wanted a black nose to be the portrait of a pug-dog.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The host was a respectable-looking, middle-aged man.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is more commonly seen in middle-aged and older adults.
(Adult Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It affects middle-aged to elderly adults, and the pelvic bones, ribs, shoulder girdle, and long bones are the most common sites of involvement.
(Chondrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
In the dim light I could make out that the person who had opened the door was a small, mean-looking, middle-aged man with rounded shoulders.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a tall, lusty, middle-aged man with a ruddy face, a brown forked beard shot with gray, and a broad Flanders hat set at the back of his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It chanced, however, that as we turned into the Pavilion Grounds, we met a magnificent team of four coal-black horses, driven by a rough-looking, middle-aged fellow in an old weather-stained cape.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a middle-aged man, portly and affable, with a considerable fund of local lore.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Charles was a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the limply drooping lip it concealed.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
