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"text": "The Geography of the middle Ages, ſays Mr. Juncker, ought to begin with the Diviſion of the Roman Empire made by Theodoſius the Great, about the End of the fourth Century, and muſt not reach farther than the Time of the Emperor Maximilian I. who divided Germany into Circles in the beginning of the XVIth Century.",
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"ref": "1753, Ephraim Chambers, edited by George Lewis Scott and John Hill, A Supplement to Mr. Chambers’s Cyclopædia; or, Univerſal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences., volume I, London: several publishers, s.v. AGE, subentry Middle''' Age:",
"text": "Middle''' Age denotes the ſpace of time commencing from Conſtantine, and ending at the taking of Conſtantinople by the Turks, in the fifteenth century. Martin. Dial. Geogr. in Pref. Mem. de Trev. an. 1729. p. 1359. See alſo Bibl. Univ. T. 12. p. 393. ſeq.",
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"text": "The Interval between the fall of these two Empires (the Weſtern or Latin in the fifth Century, the Eaſtern or Grecian in the fifteenth) making a ſpace of near a thouſand years, conſtitutes what we call the Middle Age.\nThe Middle Age in this usage spans the years 476–1453.",
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"ref": "1842, William Thomas Brande, Joseph Cauvin, editors, A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, s.v. MIʹDDLE AGES, page 741/1:",
"text": "A term usually employed to denote, somewhat vaguely, a space of several centuries in European annals, intervening between what are called the ancient and modern periods of history. The centuries between the ninth or tenth and the end of the fifteenth after Christ are generally comprehended under this loose denomination. In the work of Mr. Hallam on the Middle Ages, that historian has assumed as his period of commencement the conquest of Gaul by the Franks, about A. D. 500; and, for his conclusion, the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII., about 1500; and with reference to the affairs of the Greeks and their oriental neighbours, he places, as the most convenient limit between ancient and modern history, the era of Mohammed.",
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"neuter"
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"masculine"
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"code": "hi",
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"code": "id",
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"feminine"
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"code": "kk",
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"code": "kk",
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"code": "lo",
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],
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"code": "la",
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"neuter"
],
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"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "historical period",
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"masculine",
"plural"
],
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"plural"
],
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"neuter"
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "mn",
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"Terms with Volapük translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"en:Historical periods",
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"ref": "1722, Memoirs of Literature, second edition, volume VI, London: Robert Knaplock · Paul Vaillant, article xxxix. Leipsick., page 296:",
"text": "The Geography of the middle Ages, ſays Mr. Juncker, ought to begin with the Diviſion of the Roman Empire made by Theodoſius the Great, about the End of the fourth Century, and muſt not reach farther than the Time of the Emperor Maximilian I. who divided Germany into Circles in the beginning of the XVIth Century.",
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"ref": "1753, Ephraim Chambers, edited by George Lewis Scott and John Hill, A Supplement to Mr. Chambers’s Cyclopædia; or, Univerſal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences., volume I, London: several publishers, s.v. AGE, subentry Middle''' Age:",
"text": "Middle''' Age denotes the ſpace of time commencing from Conſtantine, and ending at the taking of Conſtantinople by the Turks, in the fifteenth century. Martin. Dial. Geogr. in Pref. Mem. de Trev. an. 1729. p. 1359. See alſo Bibl. Univ. T. 12. p. 393. ſeq.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1780, James Harris, Philological Inquiries, in three parts, part I, London: Charles Nourse, published 1781, epistle dedicatory, page 4:",
"text": "The Third and last Part will be rather Historical than Critical, being an Essay on the Taste and Literature of the middle Age.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "ibidem, part III, chapter i, page 240",
"text": "The Interval between the fall of these two Empires (the Weſtern or Latin in the fifth Century, the Eaſtern or Grecian in the fifteenth) making a ſpace of near a thouſand years, conſtitutes what we call the Middle Age.\nThe Middle Age in this usage spans the years 476–1453.",
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"ref": "1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, third edition, volume III, London: John Murray, published 1822, chapter ix: “On the State of Society in Europe during the Middle Ages.”, part i, page 304:",
"text": "The Middle Ages, according to the division I have adopted, comprize about one thousand years, from the invasion of France by Clovis to that of Naples by Charles VIII.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1842, William Thomas Brande, Joseph Cauvin, editors, A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, s.v. MIʹDDLE AGES, page 741/1:",
"text": "A term usually employed to denote, somewhat vaguely, a space of several centuries in European annals, intervening between what are called the ancient and modern periods of history. The centuries between the ninth or tenth and the end of the fifteenth after Christ are generally comprehended under this loose denomination. In the work of Mr. Hallam on the Middle Ages, that historian has assumed as his period of commencement the conquest of Gaul by the Franks, about A. D. 500; and, for his conclusion, the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII., about 1500; and with reference to the affairs of the Greeks and their oriental neighbours, he places, as the most convenient limit between ancient and modern history, the era of Mohammed.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1882, James Cotter Morison, Macaulay (English Men of Letters), New York: Harper & Brothers, chapter iii: “The ‘Essays.’”, page 70:",
"text": "His acquaintance with the Middle Age generally may without injustice be pronounced slight; and though well informed as to the history of the Continent, his knowledge of it, as we shall have occasion to see, was not so accurate of deep.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1887, James Cotter Morison, The Service of Man. An Essay towards the Religion of the Future., London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., chapter vii: “What Christianity has done”, pages 177–178:",
"text": "Within two centuries of its [scil. the Nicene Creed’s] promulgation, the Græco-Roman world had descended into the great hollow which is roughly called the Middle Ages, extending from the fifth to the fifteenth century, a hollow in which many great, beautiful and heroic things were done and created, but in which knowledge, as we understand it, and as Aristotle understood it, had no place.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl; book 1 of 8), Viking, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:",
"text": "She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500 CE."
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mesjetë"
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"code": "sq",
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"code": "am",
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"roman": "mäkakäläña zämän",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "መካከለኛ ዘመን"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "al-ʕuṣūr al-wusṭā",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "الْعُصُور الْوُسْطَى"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "al-qurūn al-wusṭā",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"code": "az",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"code": "bn",
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"roman": "moddhojug",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "মধ্যযুগ"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"word": "сре́дни векове́"
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"roman": "a.laihket",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "အလယ်ခေတ်"
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"sense": "historical period",
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"word": "edat mitjana"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中世紀"
},
{
"code": "yue",
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"roman": "zung¹ sai³ gei²",
"sense": "historical period",
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中古時代"
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{
"code": "yue",
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"code": "yue",
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{
"code": "nan-hbl",
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"sense": "historical period",
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],
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"code": "nan-hbl",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"Hokkien"
],
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"code": "nan-hbl",
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],
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中世紀"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "zhōngshìjì",
"sense": "historical period",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "historical period",
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"roman": "zhōnggǔ shídài",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中古时代"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōnggǔ",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中古"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "středověk"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
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"word": "middelalder"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
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},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "historical period",
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},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "keskaeg"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "keskiaika"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Moyen Âge"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Ete di mieç"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Etât di mieç"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Idade Media"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šua sauḳuneebi",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "შუა საუკუნეები"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Mittelalter"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Mesaíonas",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Μεσαίωνας"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "historical period",
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},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "y'mei habeináyim",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "יְמֵי הַבֵּינַיִם"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "madhyakāl",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "मध्यकाल"
},
{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "madhya yug",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "मध्य युग"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "középkor"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "miðaldir"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Abad Pertengahan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "An Mheánaois"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Medioevo"
},
{
"alt": "ちゅうせい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chūsei",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "中世"
},
{
"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strzédnowiek"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "orta ğasyr",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "орта ғасыр"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "orta ğasyrlar",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "орта ғасырлар"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "yuk kɑɑkɑndaal",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "យុគកណ្ដាល"
},
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"alt": "中世",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jungse",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "중세"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Serdema Navîn"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "orto kılım",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "орто кылым"
},
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"code": "ky",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
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"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sa mai kāng",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "ສະໄໝກາງ"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Medium Aevum"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "Aera Mediaevālis"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "historical period",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Medium Tempus"
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "viduslaiki"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
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"code": "lb",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "sreden vek",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "среден век"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "historical period",
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"neuter"
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},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Zaman Pertengahan"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Medju Evu"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Żminijiet Nofsana"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "dundad zuun",
"sense": "historical period",
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "middelalder"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "historical period",
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],
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "historical period",
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],
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Edat Mejana"
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{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "qorun-e wostā",
"sense": "historical period",
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"masculine",
"plural"
],
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"code": "ps",
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"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
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{
"code": "prs",
"lang": "Dari",
"roman": "qurūn-i wustā",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ"
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{
"code": "prs",
"lang": "Dari",
"roman": "sadi-hā-yi miyānī",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "سَدِههَایِ مِیَانِی"
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{
"code": "fa-ira",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"roman": "ğorun-e vostâ",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "fa-ira",
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"sense": "historical period",
"word": "سَدِههایِ مِیانی"
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{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rittatiet"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "średniowiecze"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Idade Média"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "medievo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Evul Mediu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "srednevekóvʹje",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "средневеко́вье"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "srédnije veká",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "сре́дние века́"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "Na Linntean Meadhanach"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "Na Meadhan-aoisean"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "средњи век"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "средњи вијек"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "srednji vek"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "srednji vijek"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mediuevu"
},
{
"code": "szl",
"lang": "Silesian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "Strzedńe Storocza"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stredovek"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "srednji vek"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "srjejźowěk"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "srjedźowěk"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Edad Media"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "medioevo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "medievo"
},
{
"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "mindriyarihondro"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Zama za Kati"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "medeltiden"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Edad Medya"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Gitnang Kapanahunan"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "asrho-yi miyona",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "асрҳои миёна"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "qurun-i vusto",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "қуруни вусто"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "urta ğasır",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "урта гасыр"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "urta ğasırlar",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "урта гасырлар"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sà-mǎi-glaang",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "สมัยกลาง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "yúk-glaang",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "ยุคกลาง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mát-chí-má-yúk",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "มัชฌิมยุค"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "Orta Çağ"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "orta asyr"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "orta asyrlar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "serednʹovíččja",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "середньові́ччя"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "serédni viký",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "сере́дні віки́"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "qurūn-i vustā",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "azmina-yi vustā",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "اَزْمِنَۂ وُسْطیٰ"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "ottura esir",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "ئوتتۇرا ئەسىر"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "oʻrta asr"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "oʻrta asrlar"
},
{
"alt": "中古",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "trung cổ"
},
{
"alt": "中代",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "trung đại"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "zänodatimäd"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "historical period",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "yr Oesoedd Canol"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "mitl elter",
"sense": "historical period",
"word": "מיטל עלטער"
}
],
"word": "Middle Ages"
}
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