modern

About 111.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Pertaining 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.

2. adjective Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
3. noun Someone who lives in modern times.

Similar words

modernistic ultramodern state-of-the-art contemporary advanced up-to-date innovative new recent moderne

Often followed by

times world art society science history and life man

Word family

Modern Moderns moderner modernest modernly modernness modernnesses moderns