modern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒd(ə)n/
enpr: mŏdʹərn
ipa: /ˈmɑdɚn/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: moderner
form: more modern
form: modernest
form: most modern
Etymology: From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.
Senses: examples: text: Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.  Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.
text: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The "Overhead Door" is the garage door that can be opened or closed at a touch every day in the year—regardless of the weather. It is the garage door that opens UP Completely Out of the Way. In short, it is the modern door for the modern garage—in step with the times.
ref: 1930 May 31, “The "Overhead Door" for Garage-Factory-Warehouse”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 202, number 48, page 110:
text: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
ref: 1957 July 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:
text: In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
ref: 2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to current or recent time
word: contemporary
word: current
word: present
Derived terms: antemodern
antimodern
as modern as next week
early modern
European early modern human
late modern
metamodern
mid-century modern
modern age
modern algebra
modern antique
modern apprenticeship
modern art
modern as next week
modern convenience
modern dance
modern-day
Modern English
moderner
modern era
modern first
Modern French
modern girl
modern greats
Modern Greek
Modern Hebrew
modern history
modern human
modernise
modernize
modernish
modernism
modernista
modernistic
modernity
Modern Japanese
modern jazz
Modern Korean
modern language
modernly
modernness
modern pentathlon
modern physics
Modern Portuguese
modern primitive
modern school
modern sequence dancing
Modern Standard Arabic
modern studies
modern synthesis
modern times
modern up
neomodern
non-modern
nonmodern
overmodern
post-modern
postmodern
postpostmodern
premodern
prepostmodern
protomodern
pseudomodern
retro-modern
secondary modern
secondary modern school
semimodern
supermodern
transmodern
ultra-modern
ultramodern
unmodern
Related terms: moderne
Modernisme
modernus