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Modern

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What's The Definition Of Modern?

[n] a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
[n] a contemporary person
[adj] characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
[adj] (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[adj] relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";
[adj] belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
[adj] ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Modern: advanced | Bodoni | Bodoni font | contemporary | fashionable | forward-looking | innovative | late | mod | modern font | modern-day | Moderne | modernistic | neo | New | nonclassical | progressive | recent | stylish | ultramodern

Related Terms | Find terms related to Modern: 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 | newfangled | newfashioned | new-fashioned | 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 | ultramodern | ultra-ultra | upstart | up-to-date | up-to-datish | up-to-the-minute | way out | with it | Young Turk

See Also | current | human | individual | mortal | person | proportional font | somebody | someone | soul

Modern In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.] We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. --Shak. {Modern English}. See the Note under {English}.
\Mod"ern\, n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to {ancient}. --Pope.

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