modern

adj
/ˈmɒd.ən/UK/ˈmɑ.dɚn/US/ˈmɒd.ɚn/CA/ˈmɔd.ən/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from modo
  2. derived from modernus
  3. derived from moderne

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style

    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. Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic…

    Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

  3. Someone who lives in modern times.

    • The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
    • They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at modern. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at modern. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at modern

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA