Definition

1. Adjective:
   • To be getting on in years; to be approaching old age: Describes a person who is no longer young and is advancing toward the later stages of life, often implying middle age or early seniority.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Các cụ đã xế tuổi nhưng vẫn rất minh mẫn. (The elders are getting on in years but remain very sharp-minded.)
  • Ông ấy bắt đầu cảm nhận sức khỏe giảm sút khi đã xế tuổi. (He began to feel his health decline as he approached old age.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used with a respectful or neutral tone to describe the natural aging process, without strong negative connotations of frailty or decline.

Variants and Related Words

• Lớn tuổi (adj): old, elderly.

  • Bà ấy đã lớn tuổi. (She is elderly.)

• Trung niên (n): middle age.

  • Ông ấy đang ở độ tuổi trung niên. (He is in middle age.)

Synonyms

• Aging: the process of growing old.
• Advanced in years: polite phrase for being old.
• Getting on: informal for growing older.

Related Idioms

• Xế chiều (of the day): literally "late afternoon"; used metaphorically to describe the later, declining stage of life, similar to "the twilight years."
  • Cuộc đời xế chiều, ông ấy sống rất bình yên. (In the twilight years of his life, he lives very peacefully.)