name
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of Middle Age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Phrase guide
middle age
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name
Meaning 2
Alternative form of Middle Ages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, archaic
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noun
Meaning 3
The period of life directly preceding old age, often defined roughly as ages 45–65; midlife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: time of life
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Assamese: আদহ (adoh) — the period of life preceding old age
- Assamese: মাজ বয়স (maz boyox) — the period of life preceding old age
- Bengali: প্রৌঢ়তা (prōuṛhota) — the period of life preceding old age
- Bengali: প্রৌঢ়ত্ব (prōuṛhotto) — the period of life preceding old age
- Catalan: mitjana edat — the period of life preceding old age
- Chinese Mandarin: 中年 (zhōngnián) — the period of life preceding old age
- Esperanto: mezaĝo — the period of life preceding old age
- Finnish: keski-ikä — the period of life preceding old age
- French: âge moyen — the period of life preceding old age
- German: mittleres Alter — the period of life preceding old age
- German: Mittelalter — the period of life preceding old age
- Greek: μέση ηλικία (mési ilikía) — the period of life preceding old age
- Irish: meánaois — the period of life preceding old age
- Italian: mezza età — the period of life preceding old age
- Japanese: 中年 (chūnen) — the period of life preceding old age
- Korean: 중년 (jungnyeon) — the period of life preceding old age
- Romanian: vârsta de mijloc — the period of life preceding old age
- Russian: сре́дний во́зраст (srédnij vózrast) — the period of life preceding old age
- Southern Altai: орто јаш (orto ǰaš) — the period of life preceding old age
- Spanish: mediana edad — the period of life preceding old age
- Spanish: edad media — the period of life preceding old age
- Swahili: makamo — the period of life preceding old age
- Swedish: medelålder — the period of life preceding old age
- Welsh: canol oed — the period of life preceding old age