Modern

a.	1.	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.
	2.	New and common; trite; commonplace. We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. - Shak. Modern English See the Note under English.
n.	1.	A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

Noun	1.	modern - a contemporary person
	2.	modern - a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes Synonyms: Bodoni font, modern font, Bodoni Antonyms: old style, old style font - a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
Adj.	1.	modern - belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" Antonyms: nonmodern - not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time
	2.	modern - relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; Synonyms: mod, modernistic
	3.	modern - characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
	4.	modern - ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, advanced
	5.	Modern - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" Synonyms: New

Young Turk, a la mode, actual, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, arriviste, as is, avant-garde, being, brand-new, bright young man, chic, coincident, comer, concomitant, concurrent, contemporaneous, existent, existing, extant, far out, fashionable, fledgling, forward-looking, hip, hot, immanent, immediate, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, instant, late, latest, latter, mod, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernistic, modernized, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new, new generation, new man, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned, nouveau riche, novus homo, now, parvenu, popular, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent, progressive, rising generation, running, smart, streamlined, stripling, stylish, that be, that is, topical, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, upstart, way out, with it

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