the Middle Ages

noun

: the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500

Examples of the Middle Ages in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The museum boasts one of the largest decorative arts collections in the world, spanning some 1.5 million objects dating from the Middle Ages through to today. —Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 July 2025

What’s happening Medieval Fair for all ages: The Society for Creative Anachronism will be demonstrating different arts, craftsmanship, fighting styles, and more from the Middle Ages. —Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2025

Maclean and cinematographer Robbie Ryan take on the revenge-thriller genre to address Western hostility from Europe during the Middle Ages and implicitly down to the present. —Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2025

Only the wealthy: the masses had given it up in the Middle Ages, fearful that bathwater transmitted the plague. —Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025

Rhymes for the Middle Ages

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• cages
• gages
• gauges
• mages
• pages
• phages
• sages
• stages
• wages
• disengages
• macrophages