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Meaning of modern


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  modern
      adj 1: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;
             "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history";
             "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant:
             {nonmodern}]
      2: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
         offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic
         designs"; [syn: {mod}, {modern}, {modernistic}]
      3: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature
         and architecture
      4: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had
         advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking
         corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn:
         {advanced}, {forward-looking}, {innovative}, {modern}]
      5: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
         development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
         [syn: {Modern}, {New}]
      n 1: a contemporary person
      2: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista
         Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs
         and heavy downstrokes [syn: {modern}, {modern font},
         {Bodoni}, {Bodoni font}] [ant: {old style}, {old style font}]


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