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mid⋅life

[n. mid-lahyf; adj. mid-lahyf]
–noun
1. middle age.
–adjective
2. middle-aged.
Also, mid-life.


Origin:
1895–1900; mid- + life
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middle age  
n.  The time of human life between youth and old age, usually reckoned as the years between 40 and 60. Also called midlife.
mid·life   (mĭd'līf')   
n.   pl. mid·lives (-līvz')
See middle age.
adj.  Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age: "a midlife lull when it was feared he was finished" (Curtis Wilkie).
mid'lif'er n.
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midlife mid·life (mĭd'līf')
n.
See middle age. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age.

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