modern
mo dern
- n a contemporary person
- n a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
- a belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
modern art
modern furniture
modern history
totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric - s relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
their offices are in a modern skyscraper
tables in modernistic designs - s characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
- s ahead of the times
- s used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
- Between now and November 1958, Dwight Eisenhower's concept of Modern Republicanism will be in for a critical test.
- Her fierce choreography sometimes amazed and sometimes horrified, but in it she embodied modern dance arrogantly and spectacularly.