1. Of or relating to recent times; relating to or using recent and up-to-date ideas, technology, fashion, etc.
   "their offices are in a modern skyscraper";
   - mod [informal], modernistic, neoteric
    
2. Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
   "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"; "modern art"; "modern furniture"
    
3. Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
   "The gallery showcased modern art from emerging artists"
    
4. Ahead of the times
   "the modern teaching methods";
   - advanced, forward-looking, innovative, forward-thinking

1. A contemporary person
   "As a modern, she embraced the latest technological advancements"
    
2. A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
   "The magazine's title was set in modern font";
   - modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

1. (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
   "Modern English";
   - New

Derived forms: moderns

See also: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, contemporary, current, fashionable, hip [informal], late, modern-day, moderne, modernism, modernity, modernness, neo, new, nonclassical, progressive, redbrick [Brit], red-brick [Brit], stylish, ultramodern

Type of: actor, doer, proportional font, worker

Antonym: nonmodern

Encyclopedia: Modern, Timișoara