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modern language

noun

one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.

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Nearby words

  1. modern greats,
  2. modern greek,
  3. modern hebrew,
  4. modern icelandic,
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  6. modern languages,
  7. modern pentathlon,
  8. modern persian,
  9. modern sequence dancing,
  10. modern synthesis

Origin of modern language

First recorded in 1830–40
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British Dictionary definitions for modern language

modern language

noun

any of the languages spoken in present-day Europe, with the exception of English
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