middle-aged
B1
adj
Freq #11714
Meanings
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1
adj
Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.
The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
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2
adj
Characteristic of middle-aged people.
Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.
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3
adj
Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.
The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
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4
adj
being roughly between 45 and 65 years old
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middle-agedness