Definitions for dark ages
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Dark′ Ag′es(n.)
the period in European history from about a .d . 476 to about 1000.
Category: Western History
the whole of the Middle Ages, from about a .d . 476 to the Renaissance.
Category: Western History
(often l.c.) a period or stage marked by repressiveness, a lack of advanced knowledge, etc.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Origin of Dark Ages:
1720–30
Princeton's WordNet
Middle Ages, Dark Ages(noun)
the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Wiktionary
Dark Ages(ProperNoun)
The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476u20131000 .
Dark Ages(ProperNoun)
The time before the Internet was popular.
Dark Ages(ProperNoun)
Any relatively primitive period of time.
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