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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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Origin of modern language
First recorded in 1830–40
Words nearby modern language
modernistic, modernity, modernization, modernize, modern jazz, modern language, modern pentathlon, Modern Persian, modern sequence dancing, modern synthesis, Modersohn-Becker
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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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