Middle Ages Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
    Dark Ages.
  2. noun the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
    middle age.

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Definitions
  1. the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century.

Webster 1913