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Modern English
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English since about 1500. Also called New English.
Modern English
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(Linguistics / Languages) the English language since about 1450, esp any of the standard forms developed from the S East Midland dialect of Middle English See also English, Middle English, Old English
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Noun1.Modern English - English since about 1450
English, English language - an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries


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"And as a rule," said he, in his neat modern English, "the character of these cats would be considerably above the character of the average king, and this would be an immense moral advantage to the nation, for the reason that a nation always models its morals after its monarch's.
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Modern English polite society, my native sphere, seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.
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