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- 51Թ comparison: medieval vs. Middle Ages
medieval vs. Middle Ages
adjective
- of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: Compare Middle Ages.
medieval architecture.
- Informal. extremely old-fashioned; primitive.
plural noun
- the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 a.d. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500.