Sekirov Dictionary

modern

UK /ˈmɒd.ən/US /ˈmɑ.dɚn/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 6
phrases 1

adjective2

•
connected with the present time and its styles and ideas, not with times long ago
- Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.
- Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.
Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

noun1

•
Someone who lives in modern times.
- The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing. — 1749

forms

moderns · moderner · more modern · modernest · modernmost · most modern

Phrases with modern

modern up
To modernise

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