Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈmɒd(ə)n/
  • GenAm:
    • IPA: /ˈmɑdɚn/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.çağdaş
2.modern

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
  2. (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Substantiv

  1. Someone who lives in modern times.

Exempel

  • Our online interactive game is a modern approach   in the 1600s, the building still has
  • to teaching about gum disease.
  • Although it was built
  • a very modern look.
  • But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
  • The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
  • Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did [...] we must as historians make the attempt.
  • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd [...]

Böjningsformer

Pluralmoderns
Komparativmoderner
Komparativmore modern
Superlativmodernest
Superlativmost modern