modern
//ˈmɒd.ən//
Forms
- Comparative
- moderner
- Superlative
- modernest
- Plural
- moderns
Definitions
1.Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
- In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
- 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.
2.Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
1.Someone who lives in modern times.
- Yeats understood these ancient mysteries better than any modern.
- The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
- Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did […] we must as historians make the attempt.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1154
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now".
See also mode.