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MIDDLE ENGLISH
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I. (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)
