MIDDLE ENGLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Middle English mean? 

• MIDDLE ENGLISH (noun)
  The noun MIDDLE ENGLISH has 1 sense:

1. English from about 1100 to 1450

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE ENGLISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE ENGLISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English from about 1100 to 1450

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Middle English" is a kind of...):

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Middle English"):

East Midland (the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English)

West Midland (a dialect of Middle English)

Northern (a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans)

Kentish; Southwestern; West Saxon (a dialect of Middle English)