medieval

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But at least we'll finally graduate from a medieval society we are today.

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Quick take

relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of medieval gathered in one view.

adjective

relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times"

adjective

as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"

adjective

characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for medieval.

adjective

relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times"

adjective

as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"

adjective

characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"

Example sentences

But at least we'll finally graduate from a medieval society we are today.

Venice owed its power in the medieval period largely to geography.

"If you want to truly appreciate the work monks did to preserve knowledge in the medieval period, try writing a book out by hand.

…I imagine a dystopian future in which tourists are fluent only in topics relevant to medieval fantasy.

Prior to the Sultan's were the emperor's of the Holy Roman empire, who wielded power so absolute that even medieval Europeans would have found it unsettling.

So too are there medieval dictionaries capturing the English of Chaucer and Wycliffe, as well as dictionaries of Old English, which bring out the Germanic origins of many of the words that predated a good number of those we use today.

Some of the late 19th-century / early 20th century American industrialists explicitly thought that the era of markets was over, because the messy, imperfect information transmission of the medieval bazaar would be finally replaced with scientific and statistical optimization of production, management, supply chains, etc., and the more centralized, the more scientific and efficient this process could be.