Middle age is the period in your life when you are no longer young but have not yet become old. Middle age is usually considered to take place between the ages of 40 and 60.
We all tend to put on weight in middle age.
middle age in British English
noun
the period of life between youth and old age, usually (in humans) considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60
middle age in American English
the time of life between youth and old age: now usually the years from about 40 to about 65
Examples of 'middle age' in a sentence
middle age
It provides a stark illustration of how these risk factors in middle age can reduce life expectancy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It is more common in people in middle age and older.
Chaitow, Leon Bad Breath (1994)
Nine chapters take the unnamed narrator from boyhood to early middle age.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He has the awkward look of a chap who hasn't taken middle age in his stride.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's fairly common in men who are middle aged or older.
The Sun (2011)
The crowd was largely men in their early middle age who had come to see Alberta.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He is a slight man in middle age with short, grey hair and a stubble beard.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In early middle age they are 50 per cent more likely than civilians to have back troubles.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
By early middle age he had become significantly successful as a businessman, in banking and internationally.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The drop in buy-to-let business might mean that banks also look more kindly on borrowers in early middle age or younger.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Within a decade, the concept of middle age as a period of gloom and upheaval had passed into popular western culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The damage to joints disclosed that most of those buried were middle aged or older, at a time when most people died young.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Middle age leads to old age and then DEATH.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Look around you at women in what I suppose we must call early middle age.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I am a middle age man + need the chance to prove to myself after all these years '.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He's going to take to middle age by continuing to run on the high-octane optimism of his twenties.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
middle age
British English: middle age NOUN
Middle age is the period in your life when you are no longer young but have not yet become old. Middle age is usually considered to take place between the ages of 40 and 60.