modern
IPA: mˈɑdɝn
noun
- Someone who lives in modern times.
adjective
- Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
- (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Examples of "modern" in Sentences
- It is the leaven of modern knowledge.
- It is the pride of the modern church.
- The development of the modern estate.
- This was the forerunner of the modern glue.
- The new system is part of the modernization plan.
- This is a metropolis in the throes of modernization.
- The modern propensity for the written word is not new.
- Modern society lives at the expense of the modern proletarian.
- It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics.
- IV. iii.170 (508,9) A modern ecstacy] I believe _modern_ is only
- The names of modern cryptographers appear in the Modern Cryptography section.
- Edouard Drumont's book Jewish France signaled the rise of modern anti-Semitism, attacking Jews for capitalism, radicalism, and other modern problems.
- Abraham, who made a series of videos lambasting the games in favour of Battlefield 3, argued that he was entitled to use the domain as he pleased because the term "modern warfare" is "generic".
- This middle zone of power and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ of the new civilization.
- II. vii.156 (272,3) [Full of wise saws and modern instances] I am in doubt whether _modern_ is in this place used for absurd; the meaning seems to be, that the justice is full of _old_ sayings and _late_ examples.
- Owing to the very fact that nothing is more modern than this thorough morbidness, this dilatoriness and excessive irritability of the nervous machinery, Wagner is the _modern artist par excellence_, the Cagliostro of modernity.
- It was the use of the term "modern" as a preface to philanthropy that truly resonated with me given the fact that in a room full of upper management and c-level suite business-gladiators, if you will, Mr. Simmons stood out as one of few Black men.
- III. ii.120 (85,1) Which modern lamentation might have mov'd] This line is left out of the later editions, I suppose because the editors did not remember that Shakespeare uses _modern_ for _common_, or _slight_: I believe it was in his time confounded in colloquial language with
- In the modern world, England and America are the most conspicuous for enlightened views of freedom, and bold vindication of the equal rights of man; yet in these two countries slave laws have been framed as bad as they were in Pagan, iron-hearted Rome; and the customs are in some respects more oppressive; -- _modern_ slavery unquestionably wears its very worst aspect in the Colonies of England and the United