LekhoriLekhoriPertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease. Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.
Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Someone who lives in modern times.
The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.
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