DARK AGES meaning: Period of cultural and economic regression

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Dark Ages, the Dark Ages, the dark ages: Merriam-Webster
Dark Ages, the dark ages: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Dark Ages, the Dark Ages: Collins English Dictionary
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the Dark Ages, the dark ages: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Dark Ages, dark ages: Wiktionary
Dark Ages: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Dark Ages (TV series), Dark Ages (World of Darkness), Dark Ages (album), Dark Ages (band), Dark Ages (cosmology), Dark Ages (disambiguation), Dark Ages (historiography), Dark Ages (video game), Dark Ages, Dark ages, The Dark Ages, The dark ages: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dark ages: Rhymezone
Dark Ages: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
dark ages: FreeDictionary.org
dark ages: Mnemonic Dictionary
Dark Ages, The Dark Ages: TheFreeDictionary.com
dark ages: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Dark Ages, The Dark Ages: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dark Ages)

▸ noun:  (see usage notes) The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.
▸ noun:  (Ancient Greece) The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 BCE).
▸ noun:  The dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863).
▸ noun:  The dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893).
▸ noun:  (astronomy) The Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Any relatively primitive period of time.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Dark Ages [(see usage notes) The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.]
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Dark Ages [(see usage notes) The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.]

Opposite:

renaissance, enlightenment, golden age

Phrases:

the dark ages, Greek Dark Ages, Byzantine Dark Ages, In Search of the Dark Ages, more...

Adjectives:

early modern, postmedieval, mediaeval, medieval, medievalistic, empire, renaissance, churrigueresque, baroque, cinquecentist, palladian

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