modern

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
• Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Noun

• Someone who lives in modern times.
• The modern time.

Related

Opposite words

• ancient, dated, former, historical, old, old-fashioned
• premodern

Origin

• From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo ("just now"), originally ablative of modus; hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.