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Word · 単語
dead language
  1. 1 dead language, extinct language
  2. 2 obsolete word, dated word, word that has become passé
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

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  • People don't say that anymore.

    sense 2 · obsolete word

  • But, then again, Latin was already a "dead language" by that time.

    sense 1 · dead language

  • That word has fallen out of use.

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