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English

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Etymology

moderne, modernus; from modo "just now", originally ablative of modus "measure"; hence, by measure, "just now". Seemode.

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. Pertaining to the current time and style.


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Translations

Noun

  1. Someone who lives in modern times.
  2. *1956: Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did..., we must as historians make the attempt. — John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, p. 144.


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German

Adjective

  1. modern#English|modern


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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-modern.ogg


Adjective

  1. Modern; pertain to current style.


Noun

  1. Definite form singular of moder.


Category:Time

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Modern \Mod"ern\, a. [F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just
now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just
now. See Mode.]
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long
past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent
period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors;
modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern
and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Modern English. See the Note under English.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Modern \Mod"ern\, n.
A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet modern
adj 1: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern
art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem
poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant: nonmodern]
2: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in
modernistic designs"; [syn: mod, modernistic]
3: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature
and architecture
4: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had
advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking
corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
[syn: advanced, forward-looking, innovative]
5: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli
Hebrew" [syn: New]
n 1: a contemporary person
2: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista
Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs
and heavy downstrokes [syn: modern font, Bodoni, {Bodoni
font}] [ant: old style]
Moby Dictionary
Young Turk , a la mode , actual , advanced , all the rage ,
all the thing , arriviste , as is , avant-garde , being , brand-new ,
bright young man , chic , coincident , comer , concomitant , concurrent ,
contemporaneous , contemporary , current , existent , existing , extant ,
far out , fashionable , fledgling , forward-looking , fresh , hip , hot ,
immanent , immediate , in , in fashion , in style , in vogue , instant ,
late , latest , latter , mod , modern generation , modern man ,
modernist , modernistic , modernized , modernizer , modish , neologism ,
neologist , neology , neonate , neoteric , neoterism , neoterist , new ,
new generation , new man , new-fashioned , newfangled , newfashioned ,
nouveau riche , novel , novus homo , now , parvenu , popular , present ,
present-age , present-day , present-time , prevailing , prevalent ,
progressive , recent , rising generation , running , smart ,
streamlined , stripling , stylish , that be , that is , topical , trendy ,
twentieth-century , ultra-ultra , ultramodern , up-to-date ,
up-to-datish , up-to-the-minute , upstart , way out , with it


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