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Dictionary entry overview: What does Modern mean?
• MODERN (noun)
The noun MODERN has 2 senses:
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
Familiarity information: MODERN used as a noun is rare.
• MODERN (adjective)
The adjective MODERN has 5 senses:
1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style
3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
4. ahead of the times
5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Familiarity information: MODERN used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• MODERN (noun)
Sense 1modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
A contemporary person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("modern" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Sense 2modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Bodoni font; modern font; Bodoni; modern
Hypernyms ("modern" is a kind of...):
proportional font (any font whose different characters have different widths)
Antonym:
old style (a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes)
• MODERN (adjective)
Sense 1modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
Context examples:
modern art / modern furniture / modern history / totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
Similar:
recent (near to or not long before the present)
neo ((used as a combining form) recent or new)
contemporary; modern-day (characteristic of the present)
ultramodern (extremely modern)
moderne (of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes)
red-brick; redbrick (of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century)
Also:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
late (being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time)
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Attribute:
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Antonym:
nonmodern (not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time)
Sense 2modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
Relating to a recently developed fashion or style
Synonyms:
modernistic; mod; modern
Context examples:
their offices are in a modern skyscraper / tables in modernistic designs
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)
Sense 3modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
Similar:
nonclassical (not classical)
Sense 4modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
Ahead of the times
Synonyms:
forward-looking; innovative; advanced; modern
Context examples:
the advanced teaching methods / had advanced views on the subject / a forward-looking corporation / is British industry innovative enough?
Similar:
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
Sense 5Modern [BACK TO TOP]
Meaning:
Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Synonyms:
Modern; New
Context examples:
Modern English / New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
Similar:
late (of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
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