Modern

1. 1

   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. 2

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

syn. current

ant. ancient · dated · former · historical · old · old-fashioned · premodern

1. 1

   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 […]