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Dark AgesˈDark ˌAges noun   - If the large living-dining area was post-Pompeii, the bathroom was late Dark Ages.
- In the Dark Ages, Power was the Church.
- It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be, and in its terrible way it was apt.
- Please, let's not go back to the Dark Ages.
- The medieval, Renaissance and modern collections cover more than a millennium, from the Dark Ages to the interwar period.
- This was one more bit of debris from the capitalist system, from feudalism, from the Dark Ages.
- What is this, the Dark Ages?
- You're a brigand, a throw-back to the Dark Ages.
extremely old-fashioned► medieval extremely old-fashioned and therefore annoying: · The plumbing in this house is medieval!positively medieval (=very medieval): · This so-called accounting system is positively medieval. ► out of the ark British informal extremely old-fashioned: · Their washing machine looks like it came out of the ark.· Her views on social policy are embarrassing -- really out of the ark. ► dinosaur a system, organization etc that is very old-fashioned and large and cannot continue to exist in the modern world: · The Health Service has become a dinosaur. It needs radical reform if it is to survive.· The line-up includes a number of rock-n-roll dinosaurs who should have hung up their guitars long ago. ► anachronism something such as an organization or custom that belongs to a time in the past, and therefore appears very strange in the modern world: · The harvest festival celebrations in the town are an anachronism since almost everyone who lives there nowadays works in an office. ► archaic use this about something that was used a long time ago but which is now considered too old-fashioned and needs replacing: · The text was full of archaic spellings.· The laws that decide who owns items discovered on an archeological exploration are ridiculously archaic. ► Dickensian buildings, conditions etc that are Dickensian are extremely old-fashioned and below acceptable standards, for example because they are dangerous or unhealthy: · They were living in a Dickensian apartment block without proper heating or running water.positively Dickensian: · The working conditions in the factory were positively Dickensian. ► the dark ages use this to talk about a society, system, or way of thinking that is extremely old-fashioned, especially in its social attitudes: · Huge amounts of aid will be needed if this society is ever to drag itself out of the dark ages.· My brother still doesn't like the idea of having a woman boss - he's stuck in the dark ages! 1the Dark Ages the period in European history from the 6th to the 10th centuries, after the end of the Roman Empire2a time when attitudes, knowledge, technology etc were not as modern or developed as they are now:  Ed is stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to his attitudes towards women. |