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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


ADJECTIVE (5)

1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;
- Example: "modern art"
- Example: "modern furniture"
- Example: "modern history"
- Example: "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
- Example: "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "the advanced teaching methods"
- Example: "had advanced views on the subject"
- Example: "a forward-looking corporation"
- Example: "is British industry innovative enough?"
[syn: advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern]

5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;
- Example: "Modern English"
- Example: "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[syn: Modern, New]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Modern \Mod"ern\, n.
   A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. --Pope.
   [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            We have our philosophical persons, to make modern
            and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.
                                                  --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   Modern English. See the Note under English.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "modern":
   Young Turk, a la mode, actual, advanced, all the rage,
   all the thing, arriviste, as is, avant-garde, being, brand-new,
   bright young man, chic, coincident, comer, concomitant, concurrent,
   contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, extant,
   far out, fashionable, fledgling, forward-looking, fresh, hip, hot,
   immanent, immediate, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, instant,
   late, latest, latter, mod, modern generation, modern man,
   modernist, modernistic, modernized, modernizer, modish, neologism,
   neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new,
   new generation, new man, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned,
   nouveau riche, novel, novus homo, now, parvenu, popular, present,
   present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent,
   progressive, recent, rising generation, running, smart,
   streamlined, stripling, stylish, that be, that is, topical, trendy,
   twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date,
   up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, upstart, way out, with it