modern language
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.
Origin of modern language
1Words Nearby modern language
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How to use modern language in a sentence
Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language.
There are commentaries by the hundred on it in nearly every modern language.
Psychotherapy | James J. WalshHe has learned that in proportion as a machine or anything else is expressive—in the modern language, it hides.
The Voice of the Machines | Gerald Stanley LeeThus in his view the chief reason for learning a modern language is that business communications will thereby be facilitated.
Cambridge Essays on Education | VariousHis modern language studies involved much translation, but his first book, "Hyperion," was not published until 1839.
American Men of Mind | Burton E. Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for modern language
any of the languages spoken in present-day Europe, with the exception of English
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