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Definition of Modern |
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Modern
Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. New and common; trite; commonplace. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Related Definitions: Ancient, And, As, Common, Commonplace, In, Late, Long, Modern, New, Not, Of, Opposed, Or, Past, Period, Person, Pertaining, Practice, Present, Recent, Remote, Taste, The, Time, Times, To, Trite |
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Modern Quotations
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Oscar Wilde You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. Francois de La Rochefoucauld A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. Friedrich Nietzsche Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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Modern Translations
modern in Afrikaans is modern modern in Danish is moderne modern in Dutch is nieuwerwets, modern, bijdetijds modern in French is nouveaux modern in Italian is moderno modern in Portuguese is moderno modern in Spanish is moderno modern in Swedish is modern |
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