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medieval
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective medieval has 3 senses
- medieval(a = adj.pert) mediaeval - relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times"
- medieval(s = adj.all) gothic, mediaeval - as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
- medieval(s = adj.all) chivalric, knightly - characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
medieval, adj. (also mediaeval)
1 of, or in the style of, the Middle Ages.
2 colloq. old-fashioned, archaic.
1 of, or in the style of, the Middle Ages.
2 colloq. old-fashioned, archaic.
Idiom
medieval history the history of the 5th-15th c. medieval Latin Latin of about AD 600-1500.
Derivative
medievalism n. medievalist n. medievalize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). medievally adv.
Etymology
mod.L medium aevum f. L medius middle + aevum age
ROGET THESAURUS
medieval
Oldness
N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.
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