modern

CEFRA2

/ˈmɒd.ən/

adjective

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adjective
Related to the present time rather than the past.
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adjective
Extra detail
Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Examples

Modern travel enables us to go around the world in a few days.
The war demonstrated the destructive power of modern weapons.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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adjective

Extra meanings

Someone who lives in modern times.
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

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Modern methods improved industry.
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.
In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.

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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[…].
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
The "Overhead Door" is the garage door that can be opened or closed at a touch every day in the year—regardless of the weather. It is the garage door that opens UP Completely Out of the Way. In short, it is the modern door for the modern garage—in step with the times.
1930 May 31, “The "Overhead Door" for Garage-Factory-Warehouse”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 202, number 48, page 110
Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
1957 July 26, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times
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.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55

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Origin

adjective

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.

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adjective

The blank building had glass walls and a flat roof instead of old bricks.