medieval

About 18.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
2. adjective Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception: Archaic. Brutal.
3. adjective Archaic.
4. adjective Brutal.
5. noun Someone living in the Middle Ages.
6. noun A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

   Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.

Similar words

mediaeval knightly chivalric gothic nonmodern past device feudal romanesque premodern

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Word family

mediaeval mediaevals medievally medievals