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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
mod′ern lan′guage, 
  1. Linguisticsone 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.
  • 1830–40

'modern languages' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Devanagari - D.M.L. - learned society - maya - Permic

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