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Definition of Middle English in English: Middle Englishnoun mass nounThe English language from c.1150 to c.1470. 1470中古英语（约1150-约1470年使用） Example sentencesExamples - There are also extensive references in Hopkins's writings to Old and Middle English, in particular to Chaucer.
- The court was a focus of literary and theatrical activity, and between 1270 and 1380 it fostered the growth of vernacular languages - Middle English and Middle Dutch, for example - as acceptable media of upper-class discourse and culture.
- These languages include German, Dutch, Mainland Scandinavians, Icelandic, Yiddish, Old and Early Middle English, and Old French.
- In my dictionary of etymology, I discovered that ‘worry’, ‘choke’ and ‘strangle’ were one and the same word in Old and Middle English.
- Tolkien was a professor of Middle English and a language boffin.
- A term derived in Middle English from the Old French word seculer (itself from the Latin saecularis), the word originally referred to clergy who were not bound by the religious rules of a monastic order.
- In Middle English, dinner was used for the first big meal of the day, which was eaten sometime between 9 a.m. and noon, so it had the meaning of ‘breakfast’ or ‘lunch.’
- And also, the part names are in Old and Middle English.
- Just read the first page or two and noted that it's much easier to read Old English (or Middle English, not sure which it is) once you know a bit of Dutch.
- This word comes into the Middle English language from the Late Latin word Paganus, which means country dweller.
- The national language is Icelandic, a northern Germanic language with some resemblance to Middle English.
- Thus it was that in c.1250 the tale of King Horn, of which there is a late twelfth-century Anglo-Norman version, appeared now in Middle English, the first of many romances in this new vernacular.
- Thanks to my 10th grade English teacher, I can recite the prologue to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
- This range can make for tough going, as do swatches of untranslated Latin and Middle English and other assumed knowledge.
- The English language of the day was Middle English not usable as such.
- Modern English is essentially Middle English with slurred vowels (and additional grammatical structure added on to it to ensure that any meaning lost in the slurring of the vowels is added back on somewhere else).
- All known medieval translations are accessible: four Latin, three Italian, and three Middle English.
- His artistry was mediated through his academic training as an expert in ancient languages - including Middle English and Icelandic - and the tales of antiquity.
- It's pretty obvious that everything about Middle English got messed up, particularly after the Normans conquered England, thereby bringing the language to the lower classes.
- Modern English comes from the East Midland dialect of Middle English.
Definition of Middle English in US English: Middle Englishnounˈˌmɪdl ˈɪŋlɪʃˈˌmidl ˈiNGliSH The English language from c.1150 to c.1470. 1470中古英语（约1150-约1470年使用） Example sentencesExamples - It's pretty obvious that everything about Middle English got messed up, particularly after the Normans conquered England, thereby bringing the language to the lower classes.
- The court was a focus of literary and theatrical activity, and between 1270 and 1380 it fostered the growth of vernacular languages - Middle English and Middle Dutch, for example - as acceptable media of upper-class discourse and culture.
- Modern English is essentially Middle English with slurred vowels (and additional grammatical structure added on to it to ensure that any meaning lost in the slurring of the vowels is added back on somewhere else).
- Tolkien was a professor of Middle English and a language boffin.
- This range can make for tough going, as do swatches of untranslated Latin and Middle English and other assumed knowledge.
- A term derived in Middle English from the Old French word seculer (itself from the Latin saecularis), the word originally referred to clergy who were not bound by the religious rules of a monastic order.
- In Middle English, dinner was used for the first big meal of the day, which was eaten sometime between 9 a.m. and noon, so it had the meaning of ‘breakfast’ or ‘lunch.’
- And also, the part names are in Old and Middle English.
- In my dictionary of etymology, I discovered that ‘worry’, ‘choke’ and ‘strangle’ were one and the same word in Old and Middle English.
- This word comes into the Middle English language from the Late Latin word Paganus, which means country dweller.
- Thus it was that in c.1250 the tale of King Horn, of which there is a late twelfth-century Anglo-Norman version, appeared now in Middle English, the first of many romances in this new vernacular.
- Just read the first page or two and noted that it's much easier to read Old English (or Middle English, not sure which it is) once you know a bit of Dutch.
- All known medieval translations are accessible: four Latin, three Italian, and three Middle English.
- There are also extensive references in Hopkins's writings to Old and Middle English, in particular to Chaucer.
- The national language is Icelandic, a northern Germanic language with some resemblance to Middle English.
- Modern English comes from the East Midland dialect of Middle English.
- The English language of the day was Middle English not usable as such.
- His artistry was mediated through his academic training as an expert in ancient languages - including Middle English and Icelandic - and the tales of antiquity.
- These languages include German, Dutch, Mainland Scandinavians, Icelandic, Yiddish, Old and Early Middle English, and Old French.
- Thanks to my 10th grade English teacher, I can recite the prologue to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
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