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[ noun ] the time of life between 50 and 60
Synonyms Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Though this sculpture must take_place thirty-three years after her moment of decision , he could not conceive_of her as a woman in her mid-fifties , old , wrinkled , broken in body and face by labor or worry . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)He was in his mid_fifties at this time , long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once_again , and it was almost a decade since he had sworn_off lecturing . Related terms |
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