The Collaborative International Dictionary
mid-twenties \mid-twenties\ n. the time of life between 20 and 30.
Syn: twenties.
WordNet
n. the time of life between 20 and 30 [syn: twenties]
Usage examples of "mid-twenties".
Pinkerton detective who grew tired of the profession in the mid-twenties and turned to fictionalising his experiences for the rapidly growing number of crime and mystery pulp magazines.
His name was Henry, a young affable man in his mid-twenties, lean, well buffed, with an interestingly piratical gleam.
By the mid-twenties the Purples had developed such a reputation for savagery in dealing with enemies that victims in the cleaners and dyers war said nothing for fear for their lives.
There were a few women who appeared to be traveling alone, most of them also middle-aged, although there were a couple of younger ones in their mid-twenties who looked as if they might be former beauty queens.
The lady was in her mid-twenties, clad in a cinnamon brown kimono over a pale blue one, with a rust-colored obi.
But a dozen others took a minute or three minutes and said things about Chicago in 1920 or Culver City in the mid-Twenties when there were meadows and fields and the false civilization of MGM was a-building and ten or twelve nights a year the big red car pulled up on a siding behind the studio and Louis B.
He was Lycon, the youngest of the ephors, a good-looking youth in his mid-twenties, dark-haired and dark-eyed.
She was in her mid-twenties, with short blonde hair and a figure that promised to go pear-shaped by the time she hit forty.