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the tongues, foreign languages; often spec. the classical or learned languages; †the three tongues, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
The ancient Greek language of the classical period of Greek literature. Cf. classical, adj. 1a.
(originally) ancient Greek or Latin (cf. classical Greek, n. classical Latin, n.); (later also) the form of a language used during the most…