1. middle-aged - Adjective
2. middle-aged - Adjective Satellite
Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
Source: Webster's dictionarymiddle aged
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Oscar Wilde
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. John Updike
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kin Hubbard
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children. Margaret Mead
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. Don Marquis