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modern
('m/A/d/@/rn )

adjective (a)

  • belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages(adj.all)
    Example:
    Modern art.
    Modern furniture.
    Modern history.
    Totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric.
    Antonym:
    nonmodern
    source: wordnet30
  • Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

noun (n)

  • a contemporary person(noun.person)
    source: wordnet30
  • a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes(noun.communication)
    Synonym:
    bodoni, bodoni font, modern font
    Antonym:
    old style, old style font
    source: wordnet30
  • A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • relating to a recently developed fashion or style(adj.all)
    Example:
    Their offices are in a modern skyscraper.
    Tables in modernistic designs.
    Synonym:
    mod, modernistic
    source: wordnet30
  • characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture(adj.all)
    source: wordnet30
  • ahead of the times(adj.all)
    Synonym:
    advanced, forward-looking, innovative
    source: wordnet30
  • used of a living language; being the current stage in its development(adj.all)
    Example:
    Modern English.
    Synonym:
    new
    source: wordnet30

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