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Modern Greek

noun

  1. the Greek language since c1500. : ModGk, Mod. Gk.


Modern Greek

noun

  1. the Greek language since about 1453 ad (the fall of Byzantium) Compare Demotic Katharevusa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Modern Greek1

First recorded in 1740–50
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Example Sentences

Several of the Modern Greek stories are very like the skazka mentioned above.

Modern Greek has also a large number of Turkish words which are rejected in the artificial literary language.

After beginning with dramatic Modern Greek and Dalmatian drama.

It has been translated into Welsh and Modern Greek, and used in several theological training-schools.

Anastasius; or, the Memoirs of a Modern Greek: published in the year 1819.

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