modern
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(a) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
- modern art
- modern furniture
- modern history
- totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
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(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
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(s) ahead of the times
- the advanced teaching methods
- had advanced views on the subject
- a forward-looking corporation
- is British industry innovative enough?
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(s) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
- Modern English
- New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
Nouns
- (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 Bodoni font, modern font, Bodoni,