Dictionary Entry
modern
modern is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
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- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
New and common; trite; commonplace.
- 3noun
A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
- 4noun
a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
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- 5noun
a contemporary person
- 6adjective
characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
- 7adjective
used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
"Modern English"
"New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
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- 8adjective
relating to a recently developed fashion or style
"their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
"tables in modernistic designs"
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- 9adjective
belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
"modern art"
"modern furniture"
- 10adjective
ahead of the times
"the advanced teaching methods"
"had advanced views on the subject"
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