Modern
['mɒd(ə)n] or ['mɑdɚn]
Definition
(noun.) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.
(noun.) a contemporary person.
(adj.) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture .
(adj.) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; 'Modern English'; 'New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew' .
(adj.) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; 'modern art'; 'modern furniture'; 'modern history'; 'totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric' .
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Recent, late, new, novel, not ancient, not antique.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Present, existent, new, new-fangled, new-fashioned, recent, late, novel, later
ANT:Past, bygone, former, olden, ancient, old-fashioned, antiquated, obsolete
Typist: Margery
Definition
adj. limited to the present or recent time: not ancient: (Shak.) commonplace.—n. one who lives in modern times: (pl.) the nations of the present day distinguished from the Greeks and Romans—the ancients.—n. Modernisā′tion.—v.t. Mod′ernise to adapt to the present time.—ns. Mod′erniser; Mod′ernism modern practice or character: something of modern origin; Mod′ernist an admirer of modern ideas or habits.—adv. Mod′ernly.—ns. Mod′ernness Mod′ernity state or quality of being modern.
Typist: Millie
Examples
- It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. Plato. The Republic.
- Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to her children, all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Neolithic men of Europe were white men ancestral to the modern Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The modern boss, on the other hand, shelters behind legal forms which he has got hold of and uses for his own ends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These wells are now made with larger diameters than formerly, and altogether their construction has been rendered much more easy in modern times. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Modern science uses the force of such exploding gases for the accomplishment of work, such as running of automobiles and launches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Ah, but in doing it--in doing it you were the unconscious instrument of--of--what word have we moderns for Providence, Mr. Archer? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He has been called by an able writer, the first of the moderns, and the phrase expresses aptly the unprejudiced detachment of his intellectual side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Stephanie