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.

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Modern Quotations

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

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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