Dark-age definition

The period in the history of the universe, roughly the second 500 million years according to current cosmological models, when all matter was in the form of neutral hydrogen and helium atoms, but no stars or galaxies had formed.
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The period in Europe from the fall of Rome in the fifth century ad to the restoration of relative political stability around the year 1000; the early part of the Middle Ages.
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The entire Middle Ages, especially when viewed as a troubled period marked by the loss of classical learning. No longer in use by historians.
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An era of ignorance, superstition, or social chaos or repression.

A novel depicting the dark ages in the aftermath of a global war.

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The early or crude stage in the history or development of something.

Back in the dark ages of radio technology.

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Dark-age Sentence Examples

  • All these works are emphatically of "dark-age" character; very seldom do they suggest the true forms of countries, seas, rivers or mountains, but they embody some useful information as to early medieval conditions and history.

  • Meanwhile, during the " dark age " of secular learning at Constantinople (641-850), the light of Greek learning had spread eastwards to Syria and Arabia.

  • That was the dark age.

  • In short, the dark age was a reality; but the traditional "middle ages" are a myth.

  • Their chief value to us lies in their having preserved versions of several French poems now lost, and in their evidence as to the feelings and bent of Icelanders in the " Dark Age " of the island's history.

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