Modern English

American  

noun

1. the English language since c1475.

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Modern English British  

noun

1. the English language since about 1450, esp any of the standard forms developed from the S East Midland dialect of Middle English See also English Middle English Old English

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Example Sentences

It’s got Old English on one side and Modern English on the other, you should check it out.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

In your best Early Modern English: Bid us, what wast the most wondrous parteth of making “The Tragedy of Macbeth”?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2022

According to "Fowler's Modern English Usage," there should be, in this case, no comma after "Militia" because what we see in the amendment is an instance of something called "absolute construction."

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020

Froke pointed to Henry Watson Fowler’s 1926 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage to note how long hyphens have had ambiguous uses, though Fowler thought a little more order was needed.

From Slate

Specimens of Anglo-Saxon, and the same literally translated into Modern English.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton