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Difference between “middle age” and “Middle Ages”

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middle age—the period in life when a person is no longer young but has not yet become old:

  • He was growing stout with middle age.

Middle Ages—in European history the period between about A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1400:

  • During the Middle Ages the main economic units were the villages and manors.