Definition of Modern
Adjective: modern mó-du(r)n
- Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
"modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
- Relating to a recently developed fashion or style
"their offices are in a modern skyscraper";
- mod, modernistic
- Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
- Ahead of the times
"the modern teaching methods";
- advanced, forward-looking, innovative, forward-thinking
- A contemporary person
- A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
- modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font
- (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
"Modern English";
- New
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