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  • proper noun The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.
  • proper noun humorous The time before the Internet was popular.
  • proper noun figuratively Any relatively primitive period of time.

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  • noun the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

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