Definition of middle english Middle english
Mid•dle Eng•lish
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| middle english - English from about 1100 to 1450 | ||
| english language, english the discipline that studies the English language and literature | ||
| 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 a dialect of Middle English | ||
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middle english
Diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard began to become widespread.
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Middle English is an older type of the English language that was spoken after the Norman invasion in 1066 until the middle/late 1400s. It came from Old English after William the Conqueror came to England with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several French words.
In the 1470s, the "Chancery Standard," a type of English spoken in London, started to become more common. This was partly because William Caxton brought the printing press to England in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called Early Modern English. There were many different dialects of Middle English.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
