💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dark age"
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| Word | Definition |
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| middle agesnoun | (history) The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500 CE. |
| dark agesnoun | (see usage notes) The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE. |
| iron agenoun | An age characterized by the use of iron. |
| bronze agenoun | (archaeology) A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. |
| darkish | Somewhat dark. |
| darkeningnoun | The act of something becoming darker. |
| darknessnoun | (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light. |
| darkenverb | (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light. |
| darkensverb | (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light. |
| dark cloudnoun | (idiomatic) A situation or future event that causes worry, problems or unhappiness, likened to such a cloud overhead in the sky. |
| darkened | Having an absence of light, such as at night-time. |
| darksome | (literary, poetic) Characterized by darkness; gloomy, obscure. |
| darklingnoun | (fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark. |
| dark sidenoun | Alternative form of darkside. [(countable) The side of something that is in darkness or unlit, or has less illumination.] |
| medievalnoun | Someone living in the Middle Ages. |
| ancientnoun | A person who lived in ancient times. |
| darklenoun | To be dark; to be visible only darkly. |
| stone agenoun | (archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. |
| dystopianoun | A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc. |
| ancient historynoun | A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. |
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