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mod·ern  (mdrn)

adj.

1.

a. Of or relating to recent times or the present: modern history.

b. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date: a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.

2.

a. Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology: modern art; modern medicine.

b. Avant-garde; experimental.

3. often Modern Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages: Modern Italian; Modern Romance languages.

n.

1. One who lives in modern times.

2. One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

3. Printing Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

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[French moderne, from Old French, from Late Latin modernus, from Latin modo, in a certain manner, just now, from mod, ablative of modus, manner; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

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modern·ly adv.

modern·ness n.

Word History: The word modern, first recorded in 1585 in the sense "of present or recent times," has traveled through the centuries designating things that inevitably must become old-fashioned as the word itself goes on to the next modern thing. We have now invented the word postmodern, as if we could finally fix modern in time, but even postmodern (first recorded in 1949) will seem fusty in the end, perhaps sooner than modern will. Going back to Late Latin modernus, "modern," which is derived from Latin modo in the sense "just now," the English word modern (first recorded at the beginning of the 16th century) was not originally concerned with anything that could later be considered old-fashioned. It simply meant "being at this time, now existing," an obsolete sense today. In the later 16th century, however, we begin to see the word contrasted with the word ancient and also used of technology in a way that is clearly related to our own modern way of using the word. Modern was being applied specifically to what pertained to present times and also to what was new and not old-fashioned. Thus in the 19th and 20th centuries the word could be used to designate a movement in art, modernism, which is now being followed by postmodernism.

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modern

Adjective

1. of the present or a recent time; contemporary: there have been very few outbreaks of the disease in modern times

2. using the latest techniques, equipment, etc.; up-to-date: modern and efficient railways

3. of contemporary styles or schools of art, literature, and music, esp. those of an experimental kind

Noun

a contemporary person [Late Latin modernus, from modus mode]

modernity n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	modern - a contemporary person individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	2.	modern - a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes Bodoni font, modern font, Bodoni proportional font - any font whose different characters have different widths old style, old style font - a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
Adj.	1.	modern - belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" late - being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast" new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" nonmodern - not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time
	2.	modern - relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; mod, modernistic fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
	3.	modern - characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture nonclassical - not classical
	4.	modern - ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" forward-looking, innovative, advanced progressive - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"
	5.	Modern - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" New linguistics - the scientific study of language late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek"

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modern

adjective 1. current, present, contemporary, recent, late, present-day, latter-day

adjective 2. up-to-date, latest, fresh, new, novel, with it (informal) up-to-the-minute, newfangled, neoteric (rare) << OPPOSITE old-fashioned

Translations

modern [ˈmɔdən] adj → moderno;

modern languages → lenguas fpl modernas

modern [ˈmɔdən] adj → moderne

modern [ˈmɔdən] adj → modern;

modern languages → moderne Fremdsprachen pl

modern [ˈmɔdən] adj → moderno/a;

modern conveniences → comodità fpl moderne;

modern languages → lingue fpl moderne

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modern

adj modern [ˈmodən]

belonging to the present or to recent times; not old or ancient modern furniture/clothes.modernعَصْريсъвремененmodernímodernemodernσύγχρονος, μοντέρνοςmodernomoodneنوmodernimoderneמוֹדֶרנִיआधुनिकmoderanmodernmodernnútíma-moderno現代の현대적인, 근대적인, 신식의modernus, šiuolaikiškas, dabartinismoderns, mūsdienu-modenmodernmoderne, nyerewspółczesny, nowoczesnymodernomodernсовременныйmodernýmoderensavremenmodernสมัยใหม่modern現代的сучаснийجدیدhiện đại现代的

n moˈdernity [-ˈdəː-]

modernheidعَصْرِيَّهсъвременностmodernostmodernitetdie Modernitätη ιδιότητα του να είναι κπ. ή κτ. μοντέρνο(ς)modernidadtänapäevasusتجددuudenaikaisuusmodernitéמוֹדֶרנִיוּתआधुनिकताmodernostkorszerűségkemodernannÿtískuleiki; nútímaviðhorf/-hugsunarhátturmodernità현대성, 근대성šiuolaikiškumas, naujoviškumasmūsdienīgums; jauninājumskemodenanmodernitetmodernitateсовременностьmodernosťmodernostsavremenostmodern- itet, nymodighetความทันสมัยmodernlik, çağdaşlık現代性сучасністьحداثتtính chất hiện đại现代性

n ˈmodernness

moderniteitعَصْرِيَّهмодерностmodernostdet at være modernedie Modernitätη ιδιότητα του να είναι κπ. ή κτ. μοντέρνο(ς)modernidadmodernsusتازگیmoderniusmodernitéמוֹדֶרנִיוּתआधुनिकताsuvremenostmodernségkemodernannÿtískuleikimodernità現代性현대적임šiuolaikiškumas, naujoviškumasmūsdienīgumsbersifat modenmodernheiddet som er modernenowoczesnośćmodernidademodernitateсовременностьmodernosťmodernostsavremenostmodernitetความทันสมัยmodernlik, çağdaşlık現代сучасністьجدیدیتsự hiện đại现代

v ˈmodernize, *ˈmodernise

to bring up to date We should modernize the education system.moderniseerيُعَصِّر،يُحَدِّثобновявам(z)modernizovatmoderniseremodernisierenεκσυγχρονίζωmodernizartänapäevaseks muutmaنوین کردنuudenaikaistaamoderniserלְחַדֵשआधुनिक बनानाmoderniziratimodernizálmemodernkanfæra til nútímahorfsmodernizzare近代化する현대화되다, 현대화하다(su)modernizuoti, modernintimodernizētmemodenkanmoderniserenoppdatere, modernisereunowocześnićmodernizara modernizaмодернизировать(z)modernizovaťposodobitimodernizovatimodern-iseraทำให้ทันสมัยmodernleştirmek使現代化модернізуватиتجدید کرناhiện đại hóa使现代化

n ˌmoderniˈzation, *ˌmoderniˈsation

moderniseringعَصْرَنَه، تَحْديثмодернизацияmodernizacemoderniseringdie Modernisierungεκσυγχρονισμόςmodernizaciónnüüdisajastamineنو سازیajanmukaistaminenmodernisationמוֹדֶרנִיזַציָהआधुनिकीकरणmodernizacijakorszerűsítésmodernisasiþað að færa til nútímahorfsmodernizzazione近代化현대화, 근대화modernizacijamodernizācijapemodenanmoderniseringoppdatering, moderniseringmodernizacjamodernizaçãomo­der­­nizareмодернизацияmodernizáciaposodobitevmodernizacijamoderniseringการทำให้ทันสมัยmodernleştirme現代化модернізаціяجدید سازیsự hiện đại hóa现代化

modern language

a language spoken nowadays (as opposed to ancient Greek, Latin etc). moderne taalلُغَه عَصْرِيَّهсъвременен езикživý jazykmoderne sproglebende Spracheγλώσσα που έχει φυσικούς ομιλητέςlengua modernanüüdiskeelزبانuudet kieletlangue vivanteשָׂפוֹת מוֹדֶרנִיוּתआधुनिक भाषाsuvremen jezikélő nyelvbahasa modernlifandi tungumállingua moderna現代語현대어(현재 유럽에서 사용되는 언어 중 특히 프랑스어, 스페인어, 독일어를 가리킨다.)dabartinė/gyva kalbajaunā (mūsdienu) valodabahasa modenmoderne taallevende språkjęzyk współczesnylínguas modernaslim­bă modernăновый языкživý jazykživ jeziksavremeni jezikmodernt språkภาษาที่ใช้พูดปัจจุบันyaşayan dil現代語言нова моваحالیہ دور کی زبانngôn ngữ hiện đại近代语言