Dark Ages

Definition: Dark Ages

Dark Ages

Noun

1. The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.

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Literature

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Synonym: Dark Ages

Ignorance

Sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages.

Well, they didn't call them the Dark Ages because it was dark. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Rashi: A Light After the Dark Ages (1999)

Dark Ages (1999)

Love in the Dark Ages (1993)

Dark Ages (1977)

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Books

• Clanbook Baali (Vampire, the Dark Ages) (reference)

• Clanbook: Cappadocian (Vampire - The Dark Ages) (reference)

• Dark Ages Assamite (reference)

• Dark Ages Cappadocian (reference)

• Dark Ages Clanbook:: Libellus Sanguinis II (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Economic History

Ireland

The excellence and isolation of these monasteries helped preserve Latin learning during the Dark Ages. (references)

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Expression using "dark ages": the dark ages. Additional references.

German

finsteres mittelalter. (various references)

Italian

alto medioevo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暗�'時代 (the Dark Ages). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あ�"�"くじ� い (the Dark Ages). (various references)

Pig Latin

arkday agesay

Portuguese

idade média (middle ages, middle-age), idade das trevas. (various references)

Romanian

evul mediu (mediaevalism, middle ages, the dark ages). (various references)

Russian 

средневековье (Middle Ages, the dark ages). (various references)

Spanish

edades bárbaras. (various references)

Swedish

medeltidens mörkaste århundraden (the dark ages). (various references)

Turkish

ortaçağın ilk yarısı, karanlık çağlar. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adages, drakes, grades.

-3 letters: adage, agars, agers, araks, areas, asked, asker, dares, darks, dears, degas, drags, drake, dregs, dreks, egads, eskar, gears, grade, grads, ragas, raged, rages, raked, rakes, rased, reads, sager, saker, sarge.

-4 letters: agar, agas, aged, ager, ages, arak, area, ares, arks, arse, asea, dags, daks, dare, dark, dear, desk, drag.

+1 letter: dekagrams.

+5 letters: skateboarding.