Modern(a.) 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.
    
    
    
        Modern(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
    
    
    
        Modern(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
    
    
    
        Modernism(n.) Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern   usage or mode of expression.
    
    
    
        Modernity(n.) Modernness; something modern.
    
    
    
        Modernization(n.) The act of rendering modern in style; the act or   process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
    
    
    
        Modernize(v. t.) To render modern; to adapt to modern person or   things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
    
    
    
        Modernized(imp. & p. p.) of Modernize
    
    
    
        Modernizer(n.) One who modernizes.
    
    
    
        Modernizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Modernize
    
    
    
        Modernly(adv.) In modern times.
    
    
    
        Modernness(n.) The quality or state of being modern; recentness;   novelty.
    
    
    
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