Meaning of MODERN
| Pronunciation: | | 'mâdurn
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- [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?"
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| | Synonyms: | | advanced, Bodoni, Bodoni font, contemporary, fashionable, forward-looking, innovative, late, mod, modern font, modern-day, Moderne, modernistic, neo, New, nonclassical, progressive, recent, stylish, ultramodern |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonmodern, old style, old style font | | |
| | See Also: | | current, human, individual, mortal, person, proportional font, somebody, someone, soul | |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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