third age
English
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editNoun
edit- (UK) The age after retirement but while one is still young enough to be active; young old age.
Usage notes
editUsed with the definite article the.
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Further reading
edit- “the third age” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “the third age”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “the third age”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- “third age”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.