modern

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to a recently developed fashion or style

   their offices are in a modern skyscraper

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Someone who lives in modern times.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

5. 5
   adj

   belonging to the modern era

6. 6
   adj

   ahead of the times

7. 7
   noun

   a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

8. 8
   noun

   a contemporary person

Etymology

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.