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middle-age

middle-age is the attributive form of Middle Ages.

Meaning of Middle Ages

Proper noun

the Middle Ages

  1. 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.
    • 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...1722, Memoirs of Literature, second edition, volume VI, London: Robert Knaplock · Paul Vaillant, article xxxix. Leipsick., page 296

Forms of middle-age

alternative formmiddleage

Phrases with middle-age

Questions about middle-age

What is middle-age the attributive form of?
Middle-age is the attributive form of Middle Ages.

Words near middle-age in the dictionary

  1. Middle Welsh
  2. Middle West
  3. Middle White
  4. middle youth
  5. middle-ag'd
  6. middle-age
  7. middle-age spread
  8. middle-age spreads
  9. middle-aged
  10. middle-agedness
  11. middle-ageing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: middle-age (page history and authors); Middle Ages (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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