medieval

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   as if belonging to the Middle Ages, usually due to brutality or antiquity

   The torturing of prisoners was considered medieval by the press.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages

   The medieval pottery was discovered by a farmer.

3. 3
   adj

   Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

   The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.

4. 4
   noun

   A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

   Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.

5. 5
   adj

   Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:

6. 6
   noun

   Someone living in the Middle Ages.

Etymology

From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).