Modern definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MOD'ERN, a. [L. modo ... late; recent; not ancient or remote in past time; as modern days, ages or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. 2. Common; mean; vulgar. [Not used.] WordNet (r) ...
Modern English definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: English since about 1450 Webster's 1913 Dictionary Modern Mod"ern, a. [F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo ... ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. --Bacon. 2. New and common; trite; ...
... 0 (2005) n 1: capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed ... Jebus, the "city of God," the "holy city;" by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning "the holy;" once "the city of ... D. 70. The city was then laid in ruins. The modern Jerusalem by-and-by began to be built over the ... the way of breaking down the barriers of Turkish exclusiveness. Modern Jerusalem "lies near the summit of a broad mountain-ridge ... Kharizimians 63. Ottoman Turks Obtain the City (1517 AD) X. MODERN JERUSALEM 1. Jews and "Zionism" 2. Christian Buildings and Institutions ... and also in Jewish literature; it is commonly used by modern Talmudic Jews. 2. In Hebrew: The form Hebrew with ...
modern-day definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: characteristic ... present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Modern-day is used to refer to the new or modern aspects of a place, an activity, or a society. ...modern-day America. ...the by-products of modern-day living. = ...
... that memory is a real record is well known in modern psychology, which talks much of inward speech and inward writing ... of a man with weapon poised to throw) and the modern cinematography of pantomime is simply a perfected form of this ... body of existing written documents, save for the relatively few modern phonographic, kymographic and other visible speech records, is handwritten, the ... called Phoenician alphabet and its many derivatives, including the usual modern alphabets. Other well-known varieties are the wedge system of ... this had in it most of the essential elements of modern handwriting. Those who remained at home read in the actual ... whole object, and this method of record survives in a modern hunting-lodge. The bounty on wolves' scalps and the ...
post-modern definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (in literature, architecture, the arts, etc.) denoting a movement reacting against modern tendencies, esp. by drawing attention to former conventions. Derivatives: post ... modernist n. & adj. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also postmodern Post-modern is used to describe something or someone that is influenced by post-modernism. ...post-modern architecture. = post-modernist ADJ: usu ADJ n
modern times definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the circumstances and ideas of the present age; "in modern times like these" [syn: modern times, present times, modern world, contemporary world]
modern world definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the circumstances and ideas of the present age; "in modern times like these" [syn: modern times, present times, modern world, contemporary world]
modern languages definitions Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Modern languages refers to the modern European languages, for example French, German, and Russian, which are studied at school or university. ...head of modern languages at a London grammar school. N-PLURAL
modern font definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes [syn: modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font] [ant: old style, old style font ...
Modern Greek definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the Greek language as spoken and written today [syn: Modern Greek, New Greek] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1699 Greek ...