middle ages

Questions about middle ages

What is another word for middle ages?

It depends which middle ages you mean. In the sense “the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance”, the synonyms are Dark Ages. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of middle ages?

WordNet records no antonym for middle ages. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for middle ages come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of middle ages

• Full entry for middle agesAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for middle agesWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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