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Definition of Modern greek
1. Noun. The Greek language as spoken and written today.
Generic synonyms: Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic Language
Specialized synonyms: Demotic, Romaic, Katharevusa
Definition of Modern greek
1. Proper noun. The Greek language as spoken since the 16th century ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern Greek
Literary usage of Modern greek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"ECHOES OF THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES IN modern greek FOLKLORE THAT a great deal
... In a manuscript volume of modern Greek folk-medicine which I picked up in ..."
2. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"The modern greek Language. The language of the modern Greeks was long regarded
by scholars as a semi-barbarous dialect, compounded of the most heterogeneous ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"LOVE DETECTED modern greek. MAIDEN, we kissed, but 'twas at night; and who thinkst
thon beheld us? The night beheld, the moon beheld, the moon and star of ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"ON SOME modern greek WORDS.' WILHELM WAGNER, Ph.D. 1. ... In modern Greek av is
frequently added to neuters in a : , K\av(iav, ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"His protest was chiefly directed against the modern Greek ... He also objected
to the modern Greek mode of pronouncing certain consonants. ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"A Guide to modern greek,' 1883 ; also a key to the same. 8. ' Simplified Grammar
of modern greek,' 1883. 9. ' Sunday for our Little Ones: Unsectarian ..."
7. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"The Modern living representative of the Greek is the Romaic or modern greek, into
which the Ancient Greek has at last dropped, from its Byzantine ..."
8. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"Suffice it to say here, briefly, that he was the one man to whom the modern Greek
language owes its present form; further, to him more than to any one ..."
9. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"ECHOES OF THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES IN modern greek FOLKLORE THAT a great deal
... In a manuscript volume of modern Greek folk-medicine which I picked up in ..."
10. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"The modern greek Language. The language of the modern Greeks was long regarded
by scholars as a semi-barbarous dialect, compounded of the most heterogeneous ..."
11. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"LOVE DETECTED modern greek. MAIDEN, we kissed, but 'twas at night; and who thinkst
thon beheld us? The night beheld, the moon beheld, the moon and star of ..."
12. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"ON SOME modern greek WORDS.' WILHELM WAGNER, Ph.D. 1. ... In modern Greek av is
frequently added to neuters in a : , K\av(iav, ..."
13. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"His protest was chiefly directed against the modern Greek ... He also objected
to the modern Greek mode of pronouncing certain consonants. ..."
14. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"A Guide to modern greek,' 1883 ; also a key to the same. 8. ' Simplified Grammar
of modern greek,' 1883. 9. ' Sunday for our Little Ones: Unsectarian ..."
15. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"The Modern living representative of the Greek is the Romaic or modern greek, into
which the Ancient Greek has at last dropped, from its Byzantine ..."
16. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"Suffice it to say here, briefly, that he was the one man to whom the modern Greek
language owes its present form; further, to him more than to any one ..."