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middle age
adjectives
early middle age
(= around age 40 )
• Two women in early middle age sat next to him.
late middle age
(= around age 60 )
• a well-dressed man in late middle age
verbs
approach middle age
(= be almost middle-aged )
• a stocky, balding man who was approaching middle age
reach middle age
(= be middle-aged )
• You need to start saving for retirement before you reach middle age.
be well into middle age
(= be obviously middle-aged, probably at least 50 )
• Most of the people there were well into middle age.
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noun ADJ. early | late a woman of late middle age | comfortable He settled into comfortable middle age. VERB + MIDDLE AGE approach a bald man approaching middle age | reach PREP. in ~ He mellowed in middle age. PHRASES well into middle age She had her first child well into middle age.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary