modern

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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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modern (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the current time and style.
    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.

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modern (plural moderns)

  1. Someone who lives in modern times.
    • 1956: 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. — John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, p. 144.

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Latin modernus

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

  1. modern

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  • IPA: [moˈdɛʁn]

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modern (comparative moderner, superlative am modernsten)

  1. modern

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  • IPA: [ˈmoːdɐn]

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modern 

  1. to rot, to molder

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modern (comparative modernare, superlative modernast)

  1. modern; pertaining to current style

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modern

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