MIDDLE-AGED MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle-aged man mean? 

• MIDDLE-AGED MAN (noun)
  The noun MIDDLE-AGED MAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE-AGED MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE-AGED MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("middle-aged man" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "middle-aged man"):

dirty old man (a middle-aged man with lecherous inclinations)

 Context examples 

The host was a respectable-looking, middle-aged man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He seemed to be a middle-aged man, with a short, dark beard.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Here it is,” said he, “written with a J pen on royal cream paper by a middle-aged man with a weak constitution.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall, lusty, middle-aged man with a ruddy face, a brown forked beard shot with gray, and a broad Flanders hat set at the back of his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a middle-aged man, portly and affable, with a considerable fund of local lore.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the dim light I could make out that the person who had opened the door was a small, mean-looking, middle-aged man with rounded shoulders.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)