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modern adjective [ ˈmɒd(ə)n ]

• relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past.
• "the pace of modern life"
Similar: present-day, contemporary, present-time, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, recent, latest,
Opposite: past,

modern noun

• a person who advocates or practises a departure from traditional styles or values.
• "they were moderns, they must not look back towards the old generation"
Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo ‘just now’.


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