middle age

1. 1.

   the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)

   Broadertime of life

   Part ofadulthood

   Partsmenopauseclimacteric

Questions about middle age

What does middle age mean?

middle age means "the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)".

Is middle age a common word?

middle age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.