'Modern' definitions:
Definition of 'modern'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant: nonmodern]
adjective
Relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; [syn: mod, modern, modernistic]
adjective
Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
adjective
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, modern]
adjective
Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: Modern, New]
noun
A contemporary person
noun
A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes [syn: modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font] [ant: old style, old style font]
Definition of 'Modern'
From: GCIDE
- Modern \Mod"ern\, n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Modern'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'modern'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Young Turk
Words containing 'Modern'
- Modernism,
- Modernity,
- Modernization,
- Modernize,
- Modernized,
- Modernizer,
- Modernizing,
- Modernly,
- Modernness,
- moderne,
- Modern English,
- modern ballet,
- modern dance,
- modern era,
- modern font,
- modern greek,
- modern hebrew,
- modern jazz,
- modern man,
- modern times,
- modern world,
- modern-day,
- secondary modern school