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MODERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; modern font
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A contemporary person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("modern" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
Modern (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
Classified under:
Similar:
nonclassical (not classical)
Derivation:
modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Example:
New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
Synonyms:
Modern; New
Classified under:
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)
Derivation:
modern (a contemporary person)
modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to a recently developed fashion or style
Example:
tables in modernistic designs
Synonyms:
mod; modern; modernistic
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)
Derivation:
modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
Example:
totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
contemporary; modern-day (characteristic of the present)
neo ((used as a combining form) recent or new)
red-brick; redbrick (of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century)
ultramodern (extremely modern)
moderne (of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes)
Also:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
late (being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time)
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
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)
Derivation:
modernity (the quality of being current or of the present)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Ahead of the times
Example:
is British industry innovative enough?
Synonyms:
advanced; forward-looking; innovative; modern
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
Derivation:
modernity (the quality of being current or of the present)
Context examples:
In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.
(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
However, low- and middle-income countries cannot afford to routinely use modern sequencing platforms to carry out this molecular classification.
(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)
The widespread use of antibiotics in modern society has led to a sharp rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)
Traces of genes from both species occur in some modern humans.
(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)
The results suggest that modern additions to the food supply can interact with gut microbiota to influence inflammation, metabolism, and weight.
(Food Additives Alter Gut Microbes, Cause Diseases in Mice, NIH)
In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion − what is now known as Tycho’s supernova remnant.
(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)
As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Yet of the moderns there are many who scoff at all omens.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The grounds of Hartfield were small, but neat and pretty; and the house was modern and well-built.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Rushworth is quite right, I think, in meaning to give it a modern dress, and I have no doubt that it will be all done extremely well.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
