The vernacular language of post-classical Greece; modern Greek. Also: a variety of this.

The vernacular language of post-classical Greece; = Romaic, n. Now chiefly historical.

The modern Greek language. Obsolete. rare.

The form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing. See sense B. 1b. Contrasted with katharevousa, n.

The purist form of Modern Greek; the ‘official’ language as opposed to the spoken and literary demotic, adj. 1b.