modernization

English

Alternative forms

• modernisation (British spelling)

Etymology

From modernize +‎ -ation or French modernisation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒdənɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, /ˌmɒdənaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑdɚnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, /ˌmɑdɚnaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, [ˌmɑɾɚ-]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: mod‧ern‧i‧za‧tion

Noun

modernization (countable and uncountable, plural modernizations)

1. The process of modernizing.

Related terms

• modernize
• modernizer

Derived terms

• antimodernization

Translations

process of modernizing

• Arabic: تَحْدِيث‎ m (taḥdīṯ)
• Armenian: արդիականացում (hy) (ardiakanacʿum)
• Asturian: modernización f
• Belarusian: мадэрніза́цыя f (madernizácyja)
• Bengali: আধুনিকীকরণ (adhunikikrôn)
• Catalan: modernització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現代化 (zh), 现代化 (zh) (xiàndàihuà), 近代化 (zh) (jìndàihuà)

• Czech: modernizace f
• Danish: modernisering c
• Dutch: modernisering (nl) f
• Finnish: modernisointi (fi)
• French: modernisation (fr) f
• Galician: modernización (gl) f
• German: Modernisierung (de) f
• Hindi: आधुनिकीकरण (ādhunikīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: modernizáció

• Icelandic: nútímavæðing f
• Italian: modernizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 近代化 (ja) (きんだいか, kindaika), 現代化 (ja) (げんだいか, gendaika)
• Kazakh: жаңғырту (jañğırtw)
• Korean: 현대화(現代化) (hyeondaehwa)
• Latvian: modernizācija f
• Macedonian: осовременување n (osovremenuvanje), модернизација f (modernizacija)
• Malayalam: ആധുനികവൽക്കരണം (ādhunikavalkkaraṇaṃ), ആധുനികീകരണം (ādhunikīkaraṇaṃ)
• Polish: modernizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: modernização f
• Russian: модерниза́ция (ru) f (modernizácija)
• Spanish: modernización (es) f
• Swedish: modernisering (sv) c
• Telugu: ఆధునికీకరణ (te) (ādhunikīkaraṇa)
• Ukrainian: модерніза́ція f (modernizácija)
• Vietnamese: sự hiện đại hoá