modernadjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/modern adjective (MOST RECENT)
A2 designed and made using the most recent ideas and methods:
modern technology/architecture/medicine/art
We're in the very modern-looking building opposite the station.
approving My grandpa's attitudes are very modern, considering his age.
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- One by one the old buildings in the city have been demolished and replaced with modern tower blocks.
- Space travel is one of the marvels/wonders of modern science.
- Does she study classical ballet or modern ballet?
- The house has every modern convenience.
- The modern furniture was out of keeping with the old house.
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- progressive
- sharp
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- à la mode
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modern adjective (PRESENT)
B1 of the present or recent times, especially the period of history since around 1500:
What do you think is the role of religion in the modern world?
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History - general words
- a page in/of history idiom
- Age of Exploration
- annals
- antiquarian
- antiquary
- antique
- historian
- historic
- historical
- history
- legacy
- oral history
- oral tradition
- page
- the Agrarian Revolution
- time