middle-aged

[ mid-l-eyjd ]

/ ˈmɪd lˈeɪdʒd /

being of the age intermediate between youth and old age, roughly between 45 and 65.

characteristic of or suitable for persons of this age.

Origin of middle-aged

First recorded in 1600–10

mid·dle-a·ged·ly

[mid-l-ey-jid-lee, -eyjd-] /ˈmɪd lˈeɪ dʒɪd li, -ˈeɪdʒd-/, adverb mid·dle-a·ged·ness, noun

Nothing says class like a middle-aged woman shaming two teenaged girls on social media for not being Stepford Children!

GOP Flack Throws Shade at First Teens |Olivia Nuzzi |November 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Middle-aged, out-of-shape Putin sat idle and silent as his dreams and hopes for the future were destroyed.

How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin |Masha Gessen |November 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
From 1992 and 2007, the number of middle-aged women who checked into rehab nearly tripled.

Elizabeth Peña and the Truth About Alcoholic Women |Gabrielle Glaser |October 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The most astonishing came from Ron and Mavis Pirola, a middle-aged Australian couple who have been together for 57 years.

The Vatican's Same-Sex Synod: The Bishops Hear About Reality. Do They Listen? |Barbie Latza Nadeau |October 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

He declined to give his name and handed me off to his companion, Diana Castillo, a middle-aged woman who told me she was 35.

Rand Paul’s Fans Hate His ISIS Plan |Olivia Nuzzi |September 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In the more progressive communities are not the middle-aged and young married people in control?

The Farmer and His Community |Dwight Sanderson
He is middle-aged and wears somewhat ill fitting brown fur, tinged with gray, and horn-rimmed spectacles.

Seeing Things at Night |Heywood Broun
All were middle-aged, except one young lieutenant, and we were indeed a rather exceptionally un-neurotic and stodgy lot.

Psychical Miscellanea |J. Arthur Hill
He also hired a middle-aged printer who agreed to come to Rolfe and work for $18 a week.

Helen in the Editor's Chair |Ruthe S. Wheeler
Many of the middle-aged disciples of the Church of Common-sense are still in our midst.

Oxford |Andrew Lang

middle-aged

of, relating to, or being in the time in a person's life between youth and old age