Modern English

noun

1. the English language since c1475.

Modern English

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

The name would have a parallel in the Modern English grindle, grundel, German grundel, a fish haunting the bottom of the water.

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In Modern English the same use is frequently seen, but the form is the same as the objective.

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The distinctive features of Modern English have already been anticipated by way of contrast with preceding stages of the language.

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Give the Modern English for the following forms and expressions—munucas, steorran, to lufienne.

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A more frequent use of min and thin, for my and thy;—in contradistinction to both Middle and Modern English.

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