dark ages

1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of Dark Ages.

1. pluralplural of dark age

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1. The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.

   There is one very real sense in which the Dark Ages were the brightest of times, and it is this: that they were times of defined and definite duties and freedoms.

   2001 December 28, Gene Wolfe, “The Best Introduction to the Mountains”, in David Pringle, editor, Interzone, number 174, →ISSN, page 49

   Synonyms: Early Middle Ages

2. Ancient GreeceThe Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 BCE).
3. The dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863).
4. The dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893).
5. astronomyThe Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
6. figurativelyAny relatively primitive period of time.

   Sunshine on the street at the parade / But you would rather be in the dark ages / Making that sign / Must've taken all night

   2019 June 14, Taylor Swift, Joel Little, “You Need to Calm Down”, in Lover, performed by Taylor Swift

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   It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era.

   1992, Steven Davis, Connectionism: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84

   Yes, DSL is a better, faster and less expensive way to access the Internet. Unfortunately, it's saddled with back-office systems that belong in the Dark Ages and politics that may require regulatory oversight.

   2000 March 6, Network World, volume 17, number 10, page 49

   Put yourself back in the dark ages, the time before the Internet took off–say, the 1970s–and ask: What was the environment for creativity then?

   2001, Lawrence Lessig, The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013, page 104

   The Scourge disaster sent angaran civilization into a dark age. Records of their golden era of technological advancement and proliferation through space only survived as oral history, making it difficult to separate truth from legend. Nevertheless, angara believe they had colonized numerous planets across the cluster before the Scourge's devastation left them cut off from each other for centuries.

   2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Lost Colony Worlds Codex entry

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dark Ages.