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Late Modern English

Late Modern English proper noun: the form of the English language written and spoken in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Proper noun

Late Modern English

  1. The form of the English language written and spoken in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • Topics discussed in the papers that follow include many that will be familiar to scholars interested in eighteenth and nineteenth-century English, but the reader will find here increasing scope and refinement – a sign, we hope, of a maturing discipline. In this introduction we will sketch the early...2009, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Wim van der Wurff, “Papers from 3LModE: an introduction”, in Maurizio Gotti, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Wim van der Wurff, editors, Current Issues in Late...
    • This book is meant for readers who want to discover how people in the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods spoke and wrote. Late Modern English (LModE, 1700–1900) is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention.2009, Ingried Tieken-Boon van Ostade, An Introduction to Late Modern English, →ISBN, page ix
    Synonyms:
    LModE

Synonyms of Late Modern English

Questions about Late Modern English

What does Late Modern English mean?
Late Modern English means the form of the English language written and spoken in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What part of speech is Late Modern English?
Late Modern English is a proper noun.

Words near Late Modern English in the dictionary

  1. Late Latin
  2. Late Middle Ages
  3. Late Middle Egyptian
  4. late model
  5. late modern
  6. Late Modern English
  7. late modernity
  8. late night
  9. late nights
  10. late on
  11. late pass

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