Synonym: contemporary, forward-looking, progressive, up-to-date. Similar words: moderate, mode, model, modest, wilderness, modify, code, bode. Meaning: ['mɑdərn /'mɒdn] 
n. 1. a contemporary person 2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes. adj. 1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages 2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style 3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture 4. ahead of the times 5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.
n. 1. a contemporary person 2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes. adj. 1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages 2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style 3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture 4. ahead of the times 5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development. 
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241. The professor has posted himself up on the modern American literature.
242. With the coming of modern technology, many jobs were lost.
243. I'd have chosen something more modern myself, but each to his own.
244. The telephone is one of the great tyrannies of modern life.
245. Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.
246. I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel.
247. Modern music is often considered inferior to that of the past.
248. Aids has been described as the scourge of the modern world.
249. She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian.
250. Babbage's engine was later seen as the forerunner of the modern computer.
251. We have to interpret his words in a modern light.
252. Is monarchy relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?
253. Their music is described as 'an explosive fusion of Latin American and modern jazz rhythms'.
254. The car neatly blends classic styling into a smooth modern package.
255. The exhibition of modern prints is currently to be seen at the City Gallery.
256. Rosie's going on a class/school outing to the Museum of Modern Art.
257. The city is characterized by tall modern buildings in steel and glass.
258. We've talked too much about modern literature, let's move on.
259. All students taking honours in Greek may also study Modern Greek.
260. Students may not use the college car park. The form mayn't is almost never used in modern English.
261. The building will be replaced,(http://sentencedict.com/modern.html) most probably by a modern sports centre.
262. NATO says it will keep a reduced number of modern nuclear weapons to guarantee peace.
263. A little way up on the left hand-side is the Museum of Modern Art.
264. A modern extension on the old building would ruin its architectural integrity.
265. The school is very modern in its approach to sex education.
266. They'll be demonstrating how to handle modern, high performance cars.
267. The company has decided it must present a more modern image.
268. Violent crime is one of the maladies affecting modern society.
269. The museum is planning to increase the amount of space allotted to modern art.
270. The concert was a mixed bag of classical and modern music.
More similar words: moderate, mode, model, modest, wilderness, modify, code, bode, modicum, erode, commodity, wooden, explode, episode, incommodious, accommodate, duodenum, accommodating, put to death, northern, southern, good evening, discern, concern, pattern, western, eastern, inferno, governor, internal.