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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



... one fountain-head and running a parallel course through long reaches may yet remain wholly distinct, one finding its way satisfactorily to the sea, while the other loses itself in sand or becomes a stagnant marsh, so our modern male and female movements, taking their rise from the same material conditions in modern civilisation, and presenting endless and close analogies with one another in their cause of development, yet remain fundamentally distinct. By both movements the future of the ...
— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner
... catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form—a fact which surely gives the Miscellany an unique place among modern collections. My deep thanks are due to my fellow-contributors for their generous and hearty co-operation, and to the editors of the 'English Review', 'To-day', 'Voices', 'New Witness', 'Observer', 'Saturday Westminster', ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
... front of us," said Holmes as we stood waiting for the arrival of the express from town. "I shall soon be in the position of being able to put into a single connected narrative one of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times. Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own. Even now we have no clear case ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle
... the people seem less prosperous, few speak English, and as you near Antwerp the villas and roads tell you that you are in the dominion of the King of Belgium. But Antwerp is so distinctly Flemish that you forget that bustling modern Brussels is only thirty-six minutes away by the express—a fast train for once in this land of snail expresses. No doubt the best manner of approaching Antwerp is by the Scheldt on one of the big steamers that dock so comfortably ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... of grown-up fairy-tales of modern times.... The characters ... are finely various and their conversations piquantly fresh and edifying ... a dramatic climax of great strength and beauty ... clean, ...
— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks


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