modern

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Middle French moderne, Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo "just now", originally ablative of modus "measure"; hence, by measure, "just now". Seemode.

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modern (not comparable)

Positive
modern

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. Pertaining to the current time and style.

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Singular
modern

Plural
moderns

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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modern (comparative moderner, superlative am modernsten)

  1. modern

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modern

  1. to rot, to molder

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Inflections of
modern
Absolute Comparative Superlative
Attributive Predicative
Indefinite
singular
Common modern modernare modernast
Neuter modernt
Definite
singular
Masc. moderne modernaste
All moderna modernaste
Plural moderna modernaste

modern

  1. Modern; pertain to current style.

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modern

  1. Definite form singular of moder.
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