"Middle Ages" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˌmɪdl̩ ˈeɪdʒɪz/ [UK, US] Forms: the Middle Ages [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|head=Middle Ages}} the Middle Ages
  1. (history) 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. Categories (topical): Historical periods, History, Time Synonyms: Barbarous Age, Dark Ages, Middle Age [singular], middle Age [singular], Middle ages [plural], middle Ages [plural], middle ages [plural], Mid. Ages [abbreviation] Derived forms: middle-age (alt: attributive quasi-adjective), middle-aged [obsolete], middleagism [nonce-word] Related terms: medieval (english: collateral adjective) Translations (historical period): mesjetë [feminine] (Albanian), mesjeta [definite, feminine] (Albanian), መካከለኛ ዘመን (mäkakäläña zämän) (Amharic), الْعُصُور الْوُسْطَى (al-ʕuṣūr al-wusṭā) (Arabic), الْقُرُون الْوُسْطَى (al-qurūn al-wusṭā) [plural] (Arabic), միջնադար (miǰnadar) (Armenian), միջին դարեր (miǰin darer) [plural] (Armenian), Orta Əsrlər [plural] (Azerbaijani), урта быуат (urta bıwat) (Bashkir), сярэдняве́чча (sjarednjavjéčča) [neuter] (Belarusian), сярэдневяко́ўе (sjarednjevjakóŭje) [neuter] (Belarusian), сярэ́днія вякі́ (sjarédnija vjakí) [masculine, plural] (Belarusian), মধ্যযুগ (moddhojug) (Bengali), средновеко́вие (srednovekóvie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), сре́дни векове́ (srédni vekové) [masculine, plural] (Bulgarian), အလယ်ခေတ် (a.laihket) (Burmese), дунда зуун (dunda zuun) (Buryat), edat mitjana [feminine] (Catalan), 中世紀 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 中世纪 (tiong-sè-kí) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 中古時代 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 中古时代 (tiong-kó͘-sî-tāi) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 中世紀 (Chinese Cantonese), 中世纪 (zung¹ sai³ gei²) (Chinese Cantonese), 中古時代 (Chinese Cantonese), 中古时代 (zung¹ gu² si⁴ doi⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 中古 (zung¹ gu²) (Chinese Cantonese), 中世紀 (Chinese Mandarin), 中世纪 (zhōngshìjì) (Chinese Mandarin), 中古時代 (Chinese Mandarin), 中古时代 (zhōnggǔ shídài) (Chinese Mandarin), 中古 (zhōnggǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), středověk [masculine] (Czech), middelalder [common-gender] (Danish), قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ (qurūn-i wustā) (Dari), سَدِههَایِ مِیَانِی (sadi-hā-yi miyānī) (Dari), middeleeuwen [plural] (Dutch), mezepoko (Esperanto), keskaeg (Estonian), keskiaika (Finnish), Moyen Âge [masculine] (French), Ete di mieç (Friulian), Etât di mieç (Friulian), Idade Media [feminine] (Galician), შუა საუკუნეები (šua sauḳuneebi) (Georgian), Mittelalter [neuter] (German), Μεσαίωνας (Mesaíonas) [masculine] (Greek), ימי הביניים (Hebrew), יְמֵי הַבֵּינַיִם (y'mei habeináyim) [masculine, plural] (Hebrew), मध्यकाल (madhyakāl) [masculine] (Hindi), मध्य युग (madhya yug) [masculine] (Hindi), középkor (Hungarian), miðaldir [feminine, plural] (Icelandic), Abad Pertengahan (Indonesian), قُرونِ وُسْطیٰ (ğorun-e vostâ) [plural] (Iranian Persian), سَدِههایِ مِیانی (sade-hâ-ye miyâni) [plural] (Iranian Persian), An Mheánaois [feminine] (Irish), Medioevo [masculine] (Italian), 中世 (chūsei) (alt: ちゅうせい) (Japanese), strzédnowiek [masculine] (Kashubian), орта ғасыр (orta ğasyr) (Kazakh), орта ғасырлар (orta ğasyrlar) [plural] (Kazakh), យុគកណ្ដាល (yuk kɑɑkɑndaal) (Khmer), 중세 (jungse) (alt: 中世) (Korean), орто кылым (orto kılım) (Kyrgyz), орто кылымдар (orto kılımdar) [plural] (Kyrgyz), ສະໄໝກາງ (sa mai kāng) (Lao), Medium Aevum [neuter] (Latin), Aera Mediaevālis [New-Latin, feminine] (Latin), Media Aetās [feminine] (Latin), Medium Tempus [neuter] (Latin), viduslaiki [masculine, plural] (Latvian), viduramžiai [masculine, plural] (Lithuanian), srjejźowěk [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), Mëttelalter [neuter] (Luxembourgish), среден век (sreden vek) [masculine] (Macedonian), средновековие (srednovekovie) [neuter] (Macedonian), Zaman Pertengahan (Malay), Medju Evu (Maltese), Żminijiet Nofsana (Maltese), дундад зуун (dundad zuun) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), Serdema Navîn (Northern Kurdish), middelalder [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mellomalder [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mellomalder [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Edat Mejana [feminine] (Occitan), قرون وسطي (qorun-e wostā) [masculine, plural] (Pashto), منځنۍ پېړۍ (manjanǝy peṛǝy) [feminine, plural] (Pashto), średniowiecze [neuter] (Polish), Idade Média [feminine] (Portuguese), medievo (Portuguese), Evul Mediu [neuter] (Romanian), средневеко́вье (srednevekóvʹje) [neuter] (Russian), сре́дние века́ (srédnije veká) [masculine, plural] (Russian), Na Linntean Meadhanach [feminine, masculine, plural] (Scottish Gaelic), Na Meadhan-aoisean [feminine, plural] (Scottish Gaelic), средњи век [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), средњи вијек [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), srednji vek [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), srednji vijek [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Mediuevu [masculine] (Sicilian), Strzedńe Storocza [neuter, plural] (Silesian), stredovek [masculine] (Slovak), srednji vek [masculine] (Slovene), Edad Media [feminine] (Spanish), medioevo [masculine] (Spanish), medievo [masculine] (Spanish), Zama za Kati (Swahili), medeltiden [common-gender] (Swedish), Edad Medya (Tagalog), Gitnang Kapanahunan (Tagalog), асрҳои миёна (asrhoyi miyona) [plural] (Tajik), қуруни вусто (quruni vusto) [plural] (Tajik), урта гасыр (urta ğasır) (Tatar), урта гасырлар (urta ğasırlar) [plural] (Tatar), สมัยกลาง (sà-mǎi-glaang) (Thai), ยุคกลาง (yúk-glaang) (Thai), มัชฌิมยุค (mát-chí-má-yúk) (Thai), Orta Çağ (Turkish), orta asyr (Turkmen), orta asyrlar [plural] (Turkmen), середньові́ччя (serednʹovíččja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), сере́дні віки́ (serédni viký) [masculine, plural] (Ukrainian), srjedźowěk [masculine] (Upper Sorbian), قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ (qurūn-i vustā) [plural] (Urdu), اَزْمِنَۂ وُسْطیٰ (azmina-yi vustā) [plural] (Urdu), ئوتتۇرا ئەسىر (ottura esir) (Uyghur), oʻrta asr (Uzbek), oʻrta asrlar [plural] (Uzbek), trung cổ (alt: 中古) (Vietnamese), trung đại (alt: 中代) (Vietnamese), zänodatimäd (Volapük), yr Oesoedd Canol [feminine, plural] (Welsh), מיטל עלטער (mitl elter) (Yiddish)
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          "sense": "historical period",
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        {
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          "sense": "historical period",
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhōnggǔ",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "word": "中古"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "středověk"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "middelalder"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "middeleeuwen"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "word": "mezepoko"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "word": "ימי הביניים"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "orto kılımdar",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "орто кылымдар"
        },
        {
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "sa mai kāng",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "word": "ສະໄໝກາງ"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Medium Aevum"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "New-Latin",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Aera Mediaevālis"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Media Aetās"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Medium Tempus"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "viduslaiki"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "viduramžiai"
        },
        {
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Mëttelalter"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "sreden vek",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "среден век"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "srednovekovie",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "средновековие"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "дундад зуун"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "middelalder"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mellomalder"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mellomalder"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Edat Mejana"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "qorun-e wostā",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "قرون وسطي"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "manjanǝy peṛǝy",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "منځنۍ پېړۍ"
        },
        {
          "code": "prs",
          "lang": "Dari",
          "roman": "qurūn-i wustā",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "word": "قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ"
        },
        {
          "code": "prs",
          "lang": "Dari",
          "roman": "sadi-hā-yi miyānī",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "word": "سَدِههَایِ مِیَانِی"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa-ira",
          "lang": "Iranian Persian",
          "roman": "ğorun-e vostâ",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "قُرونِ وُسْطیٰ"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa-ira",
          "lang": "Iranian Persian",
          "roman": "sade-hâ-ye miyâni",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "سَدِههایِ مِیانی"
        },
        {
          "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": "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": "asrhoyi miyona",
          "sense": "historical period",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "асрҳои миёна"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "quruni 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"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɪdl̩ ˈeɪdʒɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Middle Ages"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "alt": "attributive quasi-adjective",
      "word": "middle-age"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "middle-aged"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "nonce-word"
      ],
      "word": "middleagism"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Middle Ages",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1",
        "head": "Middle Ages"
      },
      "expansion": "the Middle Ages",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "collateral adjective",
      "word": "medieval"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English retronyms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Historical periods",
        "en:History",
        "en:Time"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.\nThe middle Ages in this usage span the years 394/5–1500/12.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.\nThe Middle Age in this usage spans the years 306/324–1453.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.\nThe Middle Ages in this usage span the years 486–1495.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
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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": "quotation"
        },
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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl; book 1 of 8), Viking, →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.",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Ete di mieç"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
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      "word": "შუა საუკუნეები"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
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      "code": "he",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "hi",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "id",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "kk",
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      "code": "km",
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      "code": "kmr",
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      "code": "ky",
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      "code": "lo",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "historical period",
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      "code": "lt",
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      "code": "lb",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "среден век"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
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    {
      "code": "ms",
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      "word": "Zaman Pertengahan"
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      "code": "mt",
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      "code": "mt",
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      "word": "Żminijiet Nofsana"
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      "code": "mn",
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "historical period",
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "historical period",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ps",
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        "plural"
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      "word": "قرون وسطي"
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      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "منځنۍ پېړۍ"
    },
    {
      "code": "prs",
      "lang": "Dari",
      "roman": "qurūn-i wustā",
      "sense": "historical period",
      "word": "قُرُونِ وُسْطیٰ"
    },
    {
      "code": "prs",
      "lang": "Dari",
      "roman": "sadi-hā-yi miyānī",
      "sense": "historical period",
      "word": "سَدِههَایِ مِیَانِی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "ğorun-e vostâ",
      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "قُرونِ وُسْطیٰ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "sade-hâ-ye miyâni",
      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "سَدِههایِ مِیانی"
    },
    {
      "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": "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": "asrhoyi miyona",
      "sense": "historical period",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "асрҳои миёна"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "quruni 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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