modern

From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒd(ə)n/
• (General American) enPR: mŏdʹərn, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdɚn/

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• Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)n
• Hyphenation: mod‧ern

modern (comparative moderner or more modern, superlative modernest or most modern)

1. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

   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.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 035:

     But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].

   • In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times. Timothy Snyder, The New York Times, June 14, 2018, How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?
   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. (historical) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

• (pertaining to current or recent time): contemporary, current

• (pertaining to current or recent time): ancient, dated, former, historical, old, old-fashioned
• (pertaining to the modern period): premodern

• moderne
• Modernisme
• modernus

modern (plural moderns)

1. Someone who lives in modern times.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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.

   • 1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare

     What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]

   • 1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)

     Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did […] we must as historians make the attempt.

2. The modern time.
   • 2016, Professor of European Literature Ben Hutchinson, Dr, Lateness and Modern European Literature

     This sense that the modern can be understood as that which attempts to demarcate itself from the past—but which in doing so binds itself to this past—resonates through to the modernism of the early twentieth century.

• modern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “modern” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• "modern" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 208.

• Morden, Redmon, morned, nerdom, normed, rodmen

From Latin modernus.

modern (feminine moderna, masculine plural moderns, feminine plural modernes)

1. modern

• modernisme
• modernista
• modernitzar

• “modern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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modern (comparative moderner, superlative modernst)

1. modern

From Moder (“moldiness”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːdɐn]

modern (third-person singular simple present modert, past tense moderte, past participle gemodert, auxiliary haben)

1. to rot, to molder

From French, from Latin.

• IPA^(key): [moˈdɛʁn]

modern (comparative moderner, superlative am modernsten)

1. modern

From English modern and German modern, from French moderne, from Medieval Latin modernus.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmodɛrn]

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• Hyphenation: mo‧dern

modern (comparative modernebb, superlative legmodernebb)

1. modern

From French moderne, from Late Latin modernus.

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modern (comparative modernare, superlative modernast)

1. modern; pertaining to current style

• modernisera
• modernism
• modernistisk

modern

1. definite singular of moder
2. definite singular of mor