Synonyms for Middle Ages

Princeton's WordNet

1. Middle Ages, Dark Ages(noun)

   the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

How to use Middle Ages in a sentence?

1. Andre Maurois:

   We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.

2. Jerome K. Jerome:

   I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

3. Edward VII:

   William the Great needs to learn that he is living at the end of the nineteenth century and not in the Middle Ages.

4. Freya Harrison:

   The Middle Ages are often seen as the 'Dark Ages' -- we use the term 'medieval' these days ... as pejorative -- and I just wanted to do something that explains to me how people in the Middle Ages looked at science.

5. Vilhjlmur Stefnsson:

   The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

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