Dark-age meaning

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

Back in the dark ages of radio technology.

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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.

  • He'd known love and trust only in the earliest stage of his life, when he had a family before he entered the dark age of his people.

  • The period from the early part of the 14th century to the opening of the 17th is generally regarded as the dark age of Japanese literature.

  • The so-called dark age of Japanese literature was not entirely unproductive: it gave the drama (No) to Japan.

  • Bengel (better known as a commentator), Zinzendorf, Butler and the Erskines helped to redeem the time from the reproach of being the dark age of Protestantism.

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