noun
definition
Someone who lives in modern times.
adjective
definition
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
example
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.
definition
(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Examples of modern in a Sentence
The road leading to the castle was modern blacktop.
Gabriel didn't need to understand modern science.
The castle was restored in modern times.
The appliances were modern but the cabinets were old and solid.
Modern history, in theory, rejects both these principles.
Why doesn't he get the proper equipment and run it like a modern ranch?
The small kitchen showed signs of its past life, before the addition of a modern sink and electric stove.
Banbridge is a entirely modern town.
Maybe it was a relationship that was difficult for the modern wife to understand.
They need the Internet, mobile phones, computers, and the other accoutrements of the modern age for the wealth they bring.
It had all the modern conveniences – dishwasher, garbage disposal, and even a built-in oven.
It was her responsibility now and having a job would give her the opportunity for a more modern approach to being a wife and mother.
She grimaced, expecting an outhouse, and was pleasantly surprised at the cozy but modern bathroom.
I tell this story to make a comparison between modern times and the past.
Before Katie started teaching her how to be a modern wife and mother, what were her expectations?
Dusty stripped off the clunky modern weaponry, keeping his sword and knives.
They will take advantage of the freedom from financial want that the modern age gives them and will focus on improving themselves and the world they live in.
But modern history has not done this.
A tiny bathroom off the kitchen sported a bathtub with feet, a modern commode and a sink with porcelain handles.
Its importance, however, is of comparatively modern growth and in the early history of Wurttemberg it was overshadowed by Cannstatt, the central situation of which on the Neckar seemed to mark it out as the natural capital of the country.
The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the château of the counts of Angouleme, on the site of which it is built.
This latter sense has been adapted and extended by modern historians concerned with the frontiers of the Roman Empire.
The frontier which they form is inconveniently long, enclosing an acute-angled wedge of foreign territory - the modern Baden and Wurttemberg.
The church of St John the Baptist, though largely altered by modern restoration, retains Early English to Perpendicular portions, and some early monuments and brasses.
In our modern age, people disagree not just in terms of values they apply to knowledge, but they disagree on actual pieces of knowledge.
If my reasoning elsewhere in this book is correct, we are moving toward a future where there will be nothing but healthy, well-developed, rich countries with modern infrastructure.
And then we come to Greece, the home of Hippocrates, the "Father of Modern Medicine," who left us not just the oath that bears his name but also a corpus of roughly sixty medical texts based on his teaching.
Many of the treatments of the ancient world had high degrees of efficacy, all obtained without access to any modern knowledge or equipment.
The same is true of the more modern reformers and benefactors of their race.
Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements.
They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave.
Nothing was too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste.
A modern branch of mathematics having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion which used to appear insoluble.
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it.
This modern family restaurant also offers exquisite views.
He was an excellent speaker and unabashedly told the gathering how he'd found the local sheriff's office in disarray and how it lacked up-to-date tools to deal with modern problems.
Of the numerous churches in the city the most interesting are the Stiftskirche, with two towers, a fine specimen of 15th-century Gothic; the Leonhardskirche, also a Gothic building of the 15th century; the Hospitalkirche, restored in 1841, the cloisters of which contain the tomb of Johann Reuchlin; the fine modern Gothic church of St John; the new Roman Catholic church of St Nicholas; the Friedenskirche; and the English church.
While such judgments are naturally exaggerated, there is no doubt that he takes a very high place among modern Latin poets.
But among archaeologists the word is usually restricted in its technical modern application to a sepulchral mound of greater or less magnitude.
But it seems pretty clear that if there is any change in weight consequent on chemical change, it is too minute to be of im- portance to the chemist, though the methods of modern physics may settle the question.
Mobius must be regarded as one of the leaders in the introduction of the powerful methods of modern projective geometry.
Among modern buildings may be mentioned the Bakewell and High Peak Institute, and the town hall and museum.
The houses of the city are built of stone, their walls commonly showing the massive masonry of the Incas at the bottom, crowned with a light modern superstructure roofed with red tiles.
The cruciform church of St Mary, with a central tower and short spire, is in great part Early English, with Perpendicular additions; but considerable traces of a Norman building were revealed during a modern restoration.
The church of St Luke is Perpendicular, enlarged in modern times.
Modern equity, it need hardly be said, does not profess to soften the rigour of the law, or to correct the errors into which it falls by reason of its generality.
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
The town is one of the oldest in Norway, founded in the 8th or 9th century, but the present town is modern, though narrow, winding streets and wooden houses give it an antique appearance.
The first book, after a short introduction upon the nature of theology as understood by Aquinas, proceeds in 119 questions to discuss the nature, attributes and relations of God; and this is not done as in a modern work on theology, but the questions raised in the physics of Aristotle find a place alongside of the statements of Scripture, while all subjects in any way related to the central theme are brought into the discourse.
Their territory formed part of the modern Croatia.