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.

modern language

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

First recorded in 1830–40

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.

He has learned that in proportion as a machine or anything else is expressive—in the modern language, it hides.

Thus in his view the chief reason for learning a modern language is that business communications will thereby be facilitated.

His modern language studies involved much translation, but his first book, "Hyperion," was not published until 1839.

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