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mediëval

mediëval is the rare spelling of medieval.

Meaning of medieval

Adjective

medieval (comparative more medieval, superlative most medieval)

  1. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
    • The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  2. Archaic.
  3. Brutal.
    • Brute force can get you into any apartment if you want to get medieval about it.1969 March 24, New York Magazine, page 58

See all 5 meanings of medieval

Forms of mediëval

Adjective
comparativemore mediëval
superlativemost mediëval
Noun
pluralmediëvals

Questions about mediëval

What is mediëval the rare spelling of?
Mediëval is the rare spelling of medieval.

Words near mediëval in the dictionary

  1. mediævaldom
  2. mediævalist
  3. mediævalistic
  4. mediævalists
  5. mediævally
  6. mediëval
  7. medjed
  8. medjeds
  9. Medjerda River
  10. Medjez el Bab
  11. medjidie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mediëval (page history and authors); medieval (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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