modern
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: moderner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more modern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: modernest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most modern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moderns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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[…].
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.
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.
In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
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.
gloss: Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone who lives in modern times.
pos: noun
examples: The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
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.
Yeats understood these ancient mysteries better than any modern.
Synonyms: current
Antonyms: ancient
dated
former
historical
old
old-fashioned
premodern
Related words: moderne
Modernisme
modernus
Derived words: 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 ruin
modern ruins
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
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