dead languages

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Languages that are no longer spoken.

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

His boss, who he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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notes for dead languages

Some dead languages, such as Latin, ancient Greek, and Sanskrit, may nevertheless be studied by large numbers of people because of their literary or historical importance.

Words nearby dead languages

dead heat, dead horse, dead in one's tracks, dead in the water, dead key, dead languages, dead leg, dead letter, dead letter box, dead lift, deadlight

How to use dead languages in a sentence

Why should we deem the dead languages no longer a practical study, when Latin can gain for a Frenchman an Irish wife!
In Madeira Place|Heman White Chaplin
She could never understand how a girl of healthy mind could care for mathematics, exact science, or dead languages.
The Fat of the Land|John Williams Streeter
Irrepressible and hot-tempered John could not sit down quietly to study dead languages.
The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.|Various
He was therefore not ashamed to instruct young men in the rudiments of the dead languages.
The Life of Philip Melanchthon|Karl Friedrich Ledderhose

I wished they were not so far away, those eyes, so absorbed with books and dead and gone people and dead languages.
The Story of Bawn|Katharine Tynan