modern
    adj 1: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;
           "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history";
           "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant:
           nonmodern]
    2: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
       offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic
       designs"; [syn: mod, modern, modernistic]
    3: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature
       and architecture
    4: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had
       advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking
       corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn:
       advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern]
    5: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
       development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
       [syn: Modern, New]
    n 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 [syn: modern, modern font,
       Bodoni, Bodoni font] [ant: old style, old style font]

Modern \Mod"ern\, n.
   A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. --Pope.
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Modern \Mod"ern\, a. [F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just
   now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just
   now. See Mode.]
   1. 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. --Bacon.
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   2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.]
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            We have our philosophical persons, to make modern
            and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.
                                                  --Shak.
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   Modern English. See the Note under English.
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