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Modern   /mˈɑdərn/   Listen
Modern

adjective
1.
Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages.  "Modern furniture" , "Modern history" , "Totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
2.
Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.  Synonyms: mod, modernistic.  "Tables in modernistic designs"
3.
Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture.
4.
Ahead of the times.  Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative.  "Had advanced views on the subject" , "A forward-looking corporation" , "Is British industry innovative enough?"
5.
Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.  Synonym: New.  "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
noun
1.
A contemporary person.
2.
A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.  Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font.



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"Modern" Quotes from Famous Books



... held in the ancient Stadt-House, a venerable pile built by the worthy Dutch burghers some hundred and fifty years ago, and retaining to this day its ancient furniture of ebony, many pieces of which, by the way, have lately supplied patterns for modern sofas and other furniture. The European population is composed almost entirely of the civil servants of the Government and the military men, who reside principally in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, not liking their Malay ...
— Trade and Travel in the Far East - or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, - Singapore, Australia and China. • G. F. Davidson
... by a completeness. Rejecting the fragmentary and the unfinished, the well constituted mind ever craves this. Modern thought, especially, is passing from an excessive nominalism to a more realistic habit; by many a broad induction, from mere details to a rounded whole: And nowhere more persistently than in relation to institutions. ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith
... has never produced anything so delightful and so artistic as 'Bonaventure.' The charm of the pastoral life of these unlearned, unsuspicious people in rude homes far away from the stir of modern life is as novel as ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... In modern law there exists a principle introduced by England, which is the true basis of representative Government: "no representation, no taxation." It is the right of every citizen who contributes to the taxes to approve of them and to control the use ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
... Polish, edited by George Israel, 1554; the eighth in Bohemian, edited by John Blahoslaw, 1561; the ninth in German, 1566; the tenth in Polish, 1569. As they wished here to appeal to all classes, they published hymns both ancient and modern, and tunes both grave and gay. Among the hymn-writers were John Hus, Rockycana, Luke of Prague, Augusta, and Martin Luther; and among the tunes were Gregorian Chants and popular rondels of the day. The hymns and tunes were published in one volume. ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton


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