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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Greek since the early 1500s.

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  • proper noun The Greek language as spoken since the 16th century

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  • noun the Greek language as spoken and written today

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Examples

  • The emergent common language, known as Koine, is the language of the New Testament and the source of Modern Greek.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The emergent common language, known as Koine, is the language of the New Testament and the source of Modern Greek.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In Modern Greek, it's called a "pa'pahki" i.e. duckling.

    On @ signs DC 2008

  • As a young child she learned French and English from her parents, then taught herself Modern Greek and some Ancient Greek.

    Impeachment of Man Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • It is my contention that the most illuminating way of regarding the functional diffusion of pu — and of any content word — is by looking, not only at one synchronic distribution (that of Standard Modern Greek), but at the full range of synchronic distributions in the sundry diatopic variants (dialects) of Modern Greek, and that such a discussion must be informed by the diachrony of the form...

    languagehat.com: THE STORY OF PU. 2005

  • As a young child she learned French and English from her parents, then taught herself Modern Greek and some Ancient Greek.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • According to a Kathimerini article:Worried that worshippers cannot understand services, Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Church of Greece, has instructed churches in the Athens area to start conducting New Testament readings in Modern Greek later this month, a report said yesterday.

    languagehat.com: SERVICES IN MODERN GREEK. 2004

  • I could not let this favorable opportunity pass without impressing on them, through McPhail, the advantage of reading the Scriptures to the people in the modern tongue which they could understand, telling them that the book of Genesis was already printed in Modern Greek.

    Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley Yeardley, John, 1786-1858 1860

  • From an early age, along with the literary language of Greece, there existed a conversational language, which varied in different localities, and out of this grew the Modern Greek or Neo-Hellenic.

    Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

  • Armeno-Turkish, Hebrew-Spanish, and Modern Greek, amounted to twenty-one thousand copies, and five million five hundred and eighty-two thousand pages.

    History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Rufus Anderson 1838

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