Word · 単語
初老
Reading しょろう
past middle age
- 1 past middle age, nearing old age, near-elderly
- 2 age 40 — orig. meaning
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例文 · examples
私はすでにいわゆる初老だ。
I am already what you call elderly.
彼は初老だが若く見える。
Although he is elderly, he looks young.
「夫は２年前に亡くなりました」と初老の女性は言った。
"My husband passed on two years ago," an elderly lady said.