modern meaning
EN[ˈmɒd(ə)n] [ˈmɑdɚn]US
WModern
- Modern may refer to:
- in history
- Modern history
- Early Modern period
- Late Modern period
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Contemporary history
- Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
- in philosophy and sociology
- Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies
- Late modernity
- in art
- Modernism
- Modernist poetry
- Modern art, a form of art
- Modern dance, a dance form developed in the early 20th century
- NounPLmodernsSUF-ern
- AdjectiveCOMmodernerCOMmore modernSUPmodernestSUPmost modern
- Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
- 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.
- (historical) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
- Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- 2006, Christopher Baum, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata, iv. 104
- Furniss pointed out that in 1972, a year before Lycra skinsuits replaced nylon-skirted suits to spark the first swimwear revolution of the modern era, there were 53 world records set.
- Fluvial sediment transport may further deliver the modern organic carbon to the seabed via hyperpycnal flow, resulting in long-term sequestration of modern organic carbon [10 ,30 ,51 ].
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Modern medicine effectively provides the body with an adaptation, which ultimately deadapts the body and creates dependence on further therapy.
- Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
- Modern Gymnarchus have teeth that vary in shape from incisiform at the symphysis to caniniform distally on the jaw.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of modern in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en modernity
- en modernize
- en modernization
- en modernism
- en modernist
Source: Wiktionary