CLASSICAL LATIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does classical Latin mean? 

• CLASSICAL LATIN (noun)
  The noun CLASSICAL LATIN has 1 sense:

1. the language of educated people in ancient Rome

  Familiarity information: CLASSICAL LATIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSICAL LATIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The language of educated people in ancient Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me

Hypernyms ("classical Latin" is a kind of...):

Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)