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English Dictionary: Modern	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
modern adj belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" Antonym(s): nonmodern relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; Synonym(s): mod, modern, modernistic characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" Synonym(s): advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" Synonym(s): Modern, New n a contemporary person a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes Synonym(s): modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font Antonym(s): old style, old style font
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Modern \Mod"ern\, a. [F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just now. See {Mode}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. --Bacon. 2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.] We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. --Shak. {Modern English}. See the Note under {English}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Modern \Mod"ern\, n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to {ancient}. --Pope.