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Middle English
noun
- the English language of the period c1150–c1475. : ME, M.E.
Middle English
noun
- the English language from about 1100 to about 1450: main dialects are Kentish, Southwestern (West Saxon), East Midland (which replaced West Saxon as the chief literary form and developed into Modern English), West Midland, and Northern (from which the Scots of Lowland Scotland and other modern dialects developed) ME Compare Old English Modern English
Middle English
- The English language from about 1150 to about 1500. During this time, following the Norman Conquest of England , the native language of England — Old English — borrowed great numbers of words from the Norman French of the conquerors. Middle English eventually developed into modern English.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Middle English1
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Example Sentences
Their flight had nothing to do with who I really was—an über-nerd with a taste for Middle English and Old French.
We can see this taking place, to a limited extent, in the transcripts of Middle English poems.
At the very beginning of the history of Middle English literature Orm attacked the problem of the verse translation very directly.
Of explicit comment on general principles, then, there is but a small amount in connection with Middle English translations.
In the same way the word high had in Middle English the superlative hexte.
In Middle English the became an article, and that remained a demonstrative adjective.
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