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ModernAdjective1. Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric". 2. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";. 3. Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture. 4. Ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?". 5. (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew". Noun1. A contemporary person. 2. A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "modern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Modern \Mod"ern\, adjective. [French moderne, Latin modernus; akin to modo just now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just now. See Mode.]. (references) |
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Whilst modern can simply mean something that is "up-to-date", "trendy", "new", or from the present time; it can also refer to the "modern age" -- that is, the period of time between about 1650 and 1890 when modernism was a major worldview.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Modern."
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Modern Art was introduced to America during World War I when a number of the artists in the Montmartre and Montparnasse Quarters of Paris, France fled the War. Francis Picabia (1879-1953), was responsible for bringing Modern Art to New York City.The beginnings of a Wikipedia rewrite.
Modern art in Quebec, see: Les Automatistes
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Modern dance is not a specific style of dance or a single technical method of movement; it is rather a point of view toward dance as an art. Whilst there are of course many forms of social dancing that have evolved in the modern era (from line dancing, disco, and for that matter moshing) the term is usually used to discuss dance performed for a non-participatory audience.Though it often uses the body alignment and movement of ballet, modern dance encompasses a much broader world than ballet. It is movement with freedom and meaning, usually for a serious artistic purpose. Modern dance stresses expressive individuality over conformity of movement. The process of exploring movement to arrive at a dance is thought to be at least as important as the resulting dance.
The artistic tradition that came to be known as modern, or contemporary, dance, began with a small group of dancers around 1900. By mid-century, amid much controversy, it became accepted as a very exciting form of performance.
In around 1900, a number of dancers grew dissatisfied with what they viewed as the mechanical sterility of a ballet aesthetic then in decline and with the decorative triviality of conventional theatre dance. Independently they explored innovations, setting the foundation for the revolution to come. Loie Fuller discovered illusionistic effects created by colored light and swirling draperies, illustrating the vivid theatrical impact possible in movement. Isadora Duncan devised a free style of dance that conveyed great intensity of feeling. Ruth St. Denis portrayed Oriental goddesses with an uplifting air of spirituality and mysticism. When St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the Denishawn school and company in 1915 in Los Angeles, they laid the basis from which the founders of modern dance emerged.
Three members of the Denishawn company found its pseudoexoticism inappropriate. They left Denishawn in the 1920s to follow their artistic consciences and invent a dance suited to the times. The three--Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman--became the founders of modern dance, although others, including Lester Horton, who worked in relative isolation in California, also influenced succeeding generations of dancers.
The creative surge did not take place just in America. In Central Europe, a parallel trend was taking place, influenced by the scientific studies of movement undertaken by Rudolf von Laban and his mentor Francois Delsarte, and by the Dalcroze system of rhythmic movement. These and other Europrean ideas came to the United States. The German dancers Mary Wigman and Harald Kreutzberg toured the U.S., and Hanya Holm established a Wigman school in New York City in 1931. European modern dance activity ceased with World War II, and not until American choreographers began working overseas in the 1960s did modern dance again become international.
The early moderns were fiercely independent, even rivals, but they saw themselves as a movement in rebellion against conventional types of dance. They believed that dance had to express a contemporary spirit and could not be authentic if set in a borrowed style. Dance had to embody the sense of the mechanized age, the personality of the particular artist, and the moral concerns of the time. Oriental sinuosity was thought wrong in the West. The rigid torso, turned-out feet, effortless flights, and elegant line of ballet technique derived from 300-year-old European court dancing were equally out of place.
The early moderns danced in bare feet, stayed close to the ground, emphasized body weight, eliminated elaborate costumes and sets, worked with simple musical arrangements. They moved with deliberate force, angularity, asymmetry, and distortion. Each dancer had to develop a technique of movement suited to his or her own body and to the sensations being expressed.
Modern dance developed a tradition of independence, individualism, and personal style, in which innovation--unorthodox movement and new form--was preferred to adherence to an established technical system. Choreographers of one generation formed companies that were training grounds for the next generation.
It was not only through the efforts of the dancers alone that modern dance gradually won its quest for respectability. The musician Louis Horst, a great support of early modern dance, acted as advisor, composer, and accompanist to many choreographers, particularly to Martha Graham. In 1927 newspapers regularly began assigning dance critics, such as John Martin, Margaret Lloyd, Walter Terry, and Edwin Denby, who approached performances from the viewpoint of a movement specialist rather than as a reviewer of music or drama. Educators accepted modern dance into college and university curricula, first as a part of physical education, then as performing art. Many college teachers were trained at the Bennington Summer School of the Dance, which was established at Bennington College in 1934 and then continued by Connecticut College.
Of the generation of dancers that succeeded the founders, some innovated less than they adapted existing styles. Once modern dance was established, the hostility among different technical and modern dance styles began to soften and blend. Among the most successful of those who perpetuated existing trends was Jose Limon, who made dances about larger-than-life heroes and grand social schemes. Anna Sokolow concentrated on mood rather than plot in dances, focusing on the tension and alienation of the 1950s. Alvin Ailey combined ballet and modern dance, concentrating on African-American themes; other black choreographers adopted a bouncier, looser style influenced by the African and Caribbean native dances presented by Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus. In the hands of Jack Cole and other choreographers, the modern-dance impetus reached Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
Some dancers of the second generation, however, continued in the rebellious spirit of their predecessors. Paul Taylor and Erick Hawkins made innovations in the technique and substance of their dances. Alwin Nikolais evolved a multimedia spectacle of sound, shape, movement, and light. Merce Cunningham abandoned plot, characterization, logical sequence, and preconceived emotional coloration, letting his dance movement speak for itself simply as movement occupying time and space.
Cunningham greatly influenced the dancers of the 1960s, many of whom followed his exploration of movement as movement and questioned even further what qualified as dance movement. Choreographers working with the Judson Dance Theater, including Yvonne Rainier, used everyday, unemotional movement that could be performed with minimal training. Choreographic minimalists like Rudy Perez experimented with how little could be done. Many choreographers set their dances to be performed in streets, museums, and other non-theatrical, public places.
The generation of dancers that appeared after the 1960s has shown a strong interest in training, technique, theatricality, and integrated movement. Meredith Monk has created an imaginative theater form using poetic combinations of dance images, props, and music. Twyla Tharp has developed a casual-looking but rigorous and intricate technique that often serves as a commentary on social issues and on other dance styles. Having choreographed for the conventional ballet, for films, and for the commercial theater, she is one of the most pervasive dance influences at work today. The German dancer Pina Bausch, with her Wuppertal Dance Theater, choreographs strongly narrative dances that combine movement with words, song, chant, and mime. Her work is considered expressionist and has been influenced by her teacher, the early dance modernist Kurt Joss. Avant-garde choreographer Trisha Brown designs dances where movement, not story, is primary, and where multimedia effects create a king of performance art. Much interest has risen recently from intelligence grounded in the body, supporting individual, intuitive, and fundamental movement patterns. Modern dance today draws on theater tradition, dance ethnology, somatics, exercise physiology, and physical therapy for integrated, expressive movement.
Further reading:
The Modern Dance is the title of a 1978 album by the new wave rock group Pere Ubu
- Susan Au, Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History (1988)
- Mary Clark and David Vaughan, editors, The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet (1977)
- Peggy Hackney, Making Connections (1998)
- Moira Hodgson Quintet: Five American Dance Companies (1977)
- Deborah Jowitt, Dance Beat (1977)
- S.A. Kriegsman, Modern Dance in America: the Bennington Years (1981)
- Richard Long, The Black Tradition in Modern Dance (1989)
- Don McDonagh, The Complete Guide to Modern Dance (1976); The Rise and Fall of Modern Dance (1990)
- John Martin, The Dance in Theory (1989)
- Joseph H. Mazo, Prime Movers: the Makers of Modern Dance (1984)
- Sandra Minton, Modern Dance (1984)
- Marcia Siegel, At the vanishing Point (1972), The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance (1979); Watching the Dance Go By (1977)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Modern dance."
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In Western culture the term modernism has several meanings. This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism (or the "Modern Movement").
This movement began in the late 19th century and reached its peak in the period between 1910 and 1930. It tried to redefine various artforms in a radical manner. Leading lights within the literary wing of this movement include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kafka. Composers such as Schoenberg and Stravinsky represent Modernism in music. Artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian and the Surrealists represent the visual arts, while architects and designers such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe brought Modernist ideas into everyday urban life.
Modernism centres on its rejection of tradition. It emphasises the return of the arts to their fundamental characteristics, as though beginning from scratch. This dismissal of tradition also involved the rejection of conventional expectations. Hence Modernism often stresses freedom of expression, experimentation, radicalism and even primitivism. In many art forms this often meant startling and alienating audiences with bizarre and unpredictable effects. Hence the strange and disturbing combinations of motifs in Surrealism, or the use of extreme dissonance in Modernist music. In literature this often involved the rejection of intelligible plots or characterisation in novels, or the creation of poetry that defied clear interpretation.
Many Modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they could discover radically new ways of making art. Schoenberg believed that by ignoring harmony (the relationship between consonance and dissonance) he had discovered a wholly new way of organising sound, based in the use of twelve-note rows. This became known as serial music. Abstract artists began with the assumption that colour and shape formed the essential characteristics of art, not the depiction of the natural world. Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich all believed in redefining art as the arrangement of pure colour. The use of photography, which had rendered much of the representational function of visual art obsolete, strongly affected this particular aspect of Modernism. However, these artists also believed that by rejecting the depiction of material objects they helped art move from a materialist to a spiritualist phase of development.
Other Modernists, especially those involved in design, had more pragmatic views. Modernist architects and designers believed that new technology rendered old styles of building obsolete. Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) thought that buildings should function as "machines for living in", analogous to cars, which he saw as machines for travelling in. Just as cars had replaced the horse, so Modernist design should reject the old styles and structures inherited from Ancient Greece or from the Middle Ages. Following this machine aesthetic, Modernist designers typically reject decorative motifs in design, preferring to emphasise the materials used and pure geometrical forms. The skyscraper, such as Mies's Seagram Building in New York (1956 - 1958), became the archetypal Modernist building. Modernist design of houses and furniture also typically emphasised simplicity and clarity of form, open-plan interiors, and the absence of clutter.
In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important. In literature and visual art some Modernists sought to defy expectations mainly in order to make their art more vivid, or to force the audience to take the trouble to think 'outside the box' of their preconceptions. This aspect of Modernism has often seemed a reaction to consumer culture, which developed in Europe and North America in the late 19th century. Whereas most manufacturers try to make products that will be marketable by appealing to people's preferences and prejudices, Modernists rejected such consumerist attitudes in order to undermine conventional thinking. The art critic Clement Greenberg expounded this theory of Modernism in his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch. Greenberg labelled the products of consumer culture "kitsch", because their design aimed simply to have maximum appeal, with any difficult features removed. For Greenberg, Modernism thus formed a reaction against the development of such examples of modern consumer culture as commercial popular music, Hollywood, and advertising. Greenberg associated this with a revolutionary rejection of capitalism.
Many Modernists did see themselves as part of a revolutionary culture: one that included political revolution. However, many rejected conventional politics as well as artistic conventions, believing that a revolution of consciousness had greater importance than a change in political structures. Many Modernists saw themselves as apolitical, only concerned with revolutionising their own field of endeavour. Others, such as T. S. Eliot, rejected mass popular culture from a conservative position. Indeed one can argue that Modernism in literature and art functioned to sustain an elite culture which excluded the majority of the population. The Soviet Communist government rejected Modernism on the grounds of alleged elitism; and the Nazi government in Germany deemed it narcissistic and nonsensical. The Nazis exhibited Modernist paintings alongside works by the mentally ill in an exhibition entitled Degenerate Art.
In fact Modernism flourished only in consumer/capitalist societies, despite the fact that its proponents often rejected consumerism itself. However, Modernism began to merge with consumer culture after World War II, especially during the 1960s. In Great Britain a youth sub-culture even called itself "Modernists", though usually shortened to Mods. In popular music Bob Dylan combined folk music traditions with Modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from Eliot and others. The Beatles also developed along these lines, even creating atonal and other Modernist musical effects in their later albums. Musicians such as Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart proved even more experimental. Modernist devices also started to appear in popular cinema, and later on in music videos. Modernist design also began to enter the mainstream of popular culture, as simplified and stylised forms became popular, often associated with dreams of a space age high-tech future.
This merging of consumer and Modernist culture led to a radical transformation of the meaning of "Modernism" itself. Firstly it implied that a movement based on the rejection of tradition had become a tradition of its own. Secondly it demonstrated that the distinction between elite Modernist and mass consumerist culture had lost its precision. Many have interpreted this transformation as the beginning of the phase that became known as Postmodernism. And recently (2000) a new paradigm has been suggested, comprising not only Traditionalism versus Modernism but also a third group, called Cultural Creatives, who differ from both.
In some fields the effects of Modernism have remained stronger and more persistent than in others. Visual art has made the most complete break with its past. Most major capital cities have museums devoted to 'Modern Art' as distinct from post-Renaissance art (circa 1400 to circa 1900). Examples include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Such galleries (and popular attitudes) make no distinction between Modernist and Post-Modernist phases, seeing both as developments within 'Modern Art'.
In literature Modernist experimentation has remained comparatively marginal. Many critically-admired novelists retain fairly conventional approaches to plot and characterisation. Poetry has perhaps retained more characteristics derived from Modernism.
Music has experienced a similar history, as Modernism has merged with both traditional methods and with ideas derived from popular and non-Western forms of music.
In architecture the term 'Modernist' had the most specific meaning, referring to severe and minimalist styles that rejected decoration. Again some aspects of Modernist design persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture, while its dogmatism has given way to more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama.
Experimental rejection of tradition in any of these fields now often bears the label avant garde, a phrase once almost interchangable with 'Modernist'. The concepts separated in meaning during the 1960s when some writers declared that Modernism had become so institutionalized that it was now 'post avant-garde'.
List of English-language first and second generation Modernist writers
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Modernity is a type, mode, or stage of society, initially confined to the recent history of West European countries from the Renaissance to the rise of mass media, and characterized by a larger-scale integration of formerly isolated local communities and departure from tradition and religion toward individualism, rational or scientific organization of society, and egalitarianism. A society in the state of modernity is called a modern society. The process of a society becoming a modern society is called modernization. The most defining events in the modern period include:
The more particular events in the West European history include:
- Rise of the nation state,
- Industrialization,
- Rise of capitalism,
- Emergence of socialist countries,
- Rise of representative democracy,
- Increasing role of science and technology,
- Urbanization,
- Proliferation of mass media,
It is usually suggested that some or most of these events led to the more complete realization of modern society in Europe.
- The Age of Discovery
- The Renaissance
- The Enlightenment
- The Reformation and Counter Reformation
- The French Revolution
- The American Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution
Defining Characteristics of Modernity
There have been numerous attempts, particularly in the field of sociology, to understand what modernity is. A wide variety of terms are used to describe the society, social life, driving force, symptomatic mentality, or some other defining aspects of modernity. They include: Bureaucracy, Disenchantment of the world, Rationalization, Secularization, Alienation, Commodification, Decontexutalization, Individualism, Subjectivism, Linear-progression, Objectivism, Universalism, Reductionism, Chaos, Mass society, Industrial society, Homogenization, Unification, Hybridization, Diversification, Democratization, Centralization, Hierarchical organization, Mechanization, Totalitarian, and so on.
Modernity is often characterized by comparing modern societies to premodern or postmodern ones, and the understanding of those non-modern social statuses is, again, far from a settled issue. To an extent, it is reasonable to doubt the very possibility of a descriptive concept that can adequately capture diverse realities of societies of various historical contexts, especially non-European ones, let alone a three-stage model of social evolution from premodernity to postmodernity.
However, in terms of social structure, many of the defining events and characteristics listed above stem from a transition from relatively isolated local communities to a more integrated large-scale society. Understood this way, modernization might be a general, abstract process which can be found in many different parts of histories, rather than a unique event in Europe.
In general, large-scale integration involves:
Seemingly contradictory characteristics ascribed to modernity are often different aspects of this process. For example, unique local culture is invaded and lost by the increased mobility of cultural elements, such as recipes, folktales, and hit songs, resulting in a cultural homogenization across localities, but the repertoire of available recipes and songs increases within a area because of the increased interlocal movement, resulting in a diversification within each locality. (This is manifest especially in large metropolises where there are many mobile elements). Centralized bureaucracy and hierarchical organization of governments and firms grows in scale and power in an unprecedented manner, leading some to lament the stifling, cold, rationalist or totalitarian nature of modern society. Yet individuals, often as replaceable components, may be able to move in those social subsystems, creating a sense of liberty, dynamic competition and individualism for others. This is especially the case when a modern society is compared with premodern societies, in which the family and social class one is born into shapes one's lifecourse to a greater extent.
- Increased movement of goods, capital, people, and information among formerly separate areas, and increased influence that reaches beyond a local area.
- Increased formalization of those mobile elements, development of 'circuits' on which those elements and influences travel, and standardization of many aspects of the society in general that is conducive to the mobility.
- Increased specialization of different segments of society, such as the division of labor, and interdependency among areas.
These social changes are somewhat common to many different levels of social integration, and not limited to what happened to the West European societies in a specific time period. For example, these changes might happen when formerly separate virtual communities merge. Similarly, when two human beings develop a close relationship, communication, convention, and increased division of roles tend to emerge. Another example can be found in ongoing globalization - the increased international flows changing the landscape for many. In other words, while modernity has been characterized in many seemingly contradictory ways, many of those characterizations can be reduced to a relatively simple set of concepts of social change.
At the same time, however, such an understanding of modernity is certainly not satisfactory to many, because it fails to explain the global influence of West European and American societies since the Renaissance. Mere large-scale integration of local communities, seen in the Macedonia of Alexander the Great or the Mongolia of the Khans, would not necessarily result in the same magnitude of influence as the West European modernization. What has made Western Europe so special?
There have been two major answers to this question. First, an internal factor is that only in Europe, through the Renaissance humanists and early modern philosophers and scientists, rational thinking came to replace many intellectual activities that had been under heavy influence of convention, superstition, and religion. This line of answer is most frequently associated with Max Weber, a sociologist who is known to have pursued the answer to the above question.
Second, an external factor is that colonization, starting as early as the Age of Discovery, created exploitative relations between European countries and their colonies. This view has notably been explored by the world systems theory of Emanuel Wallerstein.
It is also notable that such commonly-observed features of many modern societies as the nuclear family, slavery, gender roles, and nation states do not necessarily fit well with the idea of rational social organization in which components such as people are treated equally. While many of these features have been dissolving, histories seem to suggest those features may not be mere exceptions to the essential characteristics of modernization, but necessary parts of it.
Modernity as hope, modernity as doom
Modernization brought a series of seemingly undisputable benefits to people. Lower infant mortality rate, decreased death from starvation, eradication of some of the fatal diseases, more equal treatment of people with different backgrounds and incomes, and so on. To some, this is an indication of the potential of modernity, perhaps yet to be fully realized. In general, rational, scientific approach to problems and the pursuit of economic wealth seems still to many a reasonable way of understanding good social development.
At the same time, there are a number of dark sides of modernity pointed out by sociologists and others.
Technological development occurred not only in the medical and agricultural fields, but also in the military. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, and the following nuclear arms race in the post-war era, are considered by some as symbols of the danger of technologies that humans may or may not be able to handle wisely.
Stalin's Great Purges and the Holocaust (or Shoah) are considered by some as indications that rational thinking and rational organization of a society might involve exclusion, or extermination, of non-standard elements. It is pointed out by some that homosexuals, criminals, and the mentally ill are also among the excluded in the modern society.
Environmental problems comprise another category in the dark side of modernity. Pollution is perhaps the least controversial of these, but one may include decreasing biodiversity and climate change as results of development. The development of biotechnology and genetic engineering are creating what some consider sources of unknown risks.
Besides these obvious incidents, many critics point out psychological and moral hazards of modern life - alienation, feeling of rootlessness, loss of strong bonds and common values, hedonism, and so on. This is often accompanied by a re-evaluation of pre-modern communities, though such criticism may slip into a nostalgia for an idealized past.
Modernity and the contemporary society
There is an ongoing debate about the relationship between modernity and present societies. The debate has two dimensions. First, there is an empirical question of whether some of the present societies can be understood as a variation of modernity (such as hyper-modernity) or as a distinctive type, such as postmodernity. Second, there is a judgement of whether modernization has been, and is, desirable for a society. Seemingly new phenomena such as globalization, the end of the Cold War, ethnic conflicts, and the proliferation of information technologies are taken by some as reasons to adopt a new vision to navigate social development.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Mods | English | Modern Jazz | Social Sciences |
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Synonyms: ModernSynonyms: advanced (adj), forward-looking (adj), innovative (adj), mod (adj), modernistic (adj), modern font (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: nonmodern (adj), old style (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Newness | Late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip; vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid. |
The Present Time | Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Modern |
| English words defined with "modern": modern man. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "modern": Alnaschar of Modern Literature ♦ Leonidas of Modern Greece. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "modern": Zend-Avesta. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Modern" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (modern), Albanian (high tech, latter day, modern, modernistic, sought after, up to date), Dutch (modern), German (fashionable, fashionably, latter day, mod, modern, modernly, new, new-fashioned, present day, progressive, recent, rot, trendily, trendy, up, up to date, up-to-date), Hawaiian (modern), Hungarian (jazz, latter day, modern, modernism, new, present day, recent, sophisticated, trendy, up to date, up-to-date), Indonesian (modern), Romanian (last, modern, up to date), Swedish (fashionable, in, latter day, modern, modish, neoteric, new, smart, up to date), Turkish (advanced, contemporary, groovy, hip, in the groove, latterday, modern, neoteric, new, streamlined, up to date). |
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Screenplays | you are uglier than a modern art masterpiece (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick) Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) And who gave him permission to play modern music (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) The White House is the single greatest home court advantage in the modern world (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Yes, it's a delightful Hindu concoction simmered to perfection by one of the great soup artisans in the modern era. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | Locked in a modern world (Method Of Modern Love; performing artist: Hall & oates) She's a modern girl who's been though this movie before (Modern Girl; performing artist: Sheena Easton) I have no kick against modern jazz (Rock'n'Roll Music; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Red red wine in a modern beat style, yeah (Red Red Wine; performing artist: UB40) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974) Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) USA Poetry: Twelve films About Modern Poets (1966) Modern Romances (1954) A Modern Marriage (1950) | |
Song Titles | Method of modern love (performing artist: Hall & oates) Modern Girl (performing artist: Sheena Easton) | |
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 | Modern aerial photographic equipment mounted in NOAA jet aircraft. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Projection scheme for aeronautical charts of the U.S. Army Air Forces This scheme was developed by Paul A. Smith, head of C&GS aeronautical charting Army Air Forces routes pioneered modern commercial routes. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Modern art? or fishermen's gear? Scene on a piling. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Modern tuna purse seiners in port. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Deck of modern whaler, showing try-works, scraphopper, and utensils employed in trying-out oil. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 196, Plate 13. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Figure 28. Model of a machine for generating electricity based on differences of temperature between the sea surface and great depth. This "thermal machine" was devised by the physicist Georges Claude and the engineer Paul Boucherot in 1926. It was an application of Carnot's theorem and was a forerunner of the modern ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) project. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 36. A modern wind direction indicator or weathervane that would transmit wind direction to a recording device. The use and history of this instrument is impossible to determine. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | An early image from Applications Technology Satellite 1 (ATS-1). This satellite was launched into orbit on December 7, 1966 and was the prototype for the GOES series of satellites as well as for many modern communications satellites. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | A volcanic eruption originating at Isla Fernandina in the Galapagos Islands is evident in this image. The arrow points to a volcanic plume approximately 75 miles long cutting across other cloud structures. This image, obtained from the NOAA-2 satellite, was the first evidence of this volcanic eruption. This image demonstrated the power of modern satellites to monitor volcanoes. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Harvesting leaf lettuce by with modern farm equipment. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| "Modern Offices..." by Steven Lester Commentary: "Modern offices to let..." | "Museum of modern art bornholm" by Roger Mexico Commentary: "Interior shot of Modern Art Museum in Bornholm." |
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 | Modern jazz chords in a steady swing style featuring a muted-muted trumpet. | | Typical modern sci-fi movie or television show example. |
| Synthesized orchestra playing in a modern contrappuntal style. | | Modern jazz excerpt in a style similar to that of the Yellow Jackets. |
| An excerpt typical of a thinking or tense style in a modern movie soundtrack. | | Harmon-muted trumpet melody in a cool, easy swing style using modern harmonies. |
| Modern phone ringing. | | Brazilian-influenced excerpt with a modern electric bass. |
| Very modern style piano excerpt typical of the Romantic period. | | Modern phone ring. |
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Earl Wilson | Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. |
F. E. Abbot | Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry-rot of the modern world. |
Georg Wilhelm Hegel | Only the modern city offers the mind the grounds on which it can achieve awareness of itself. |
John Mortimer | The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. |
Matthew Arnold | This strange disease of modern life with its brisk hurry and divided aims. |
Octavio Paz | What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. |
Oscar Wilde | Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. |
William James | Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cloisters, although beneficial in the first training of modern civilisation, cramped its growth, and are injurious to its development |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was chiefly disgusted with modern history |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many modern packaging materials have simply not been tested. (references) | |
Modern instruments make it possible to monitor the baby's heart rate before delivery. (references) | ||
Levodopa's success in treating the major symptoms of Parkinson's disease is a triumph of modern medicine. (references) | ||
Business | The Peruvian tariff system is modern. (references) | |
The most modern network use the ATM technology. (references) | ||
Petromidia is the most modern Romanian refinery. (references) | ||
Children | China | In areas where such orphanages operate, some state-run orphanages have exhibited a willingness to learn from them and to adopt some of their more modern practices. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | The leading newspaper publisher remained partially government-owned and controlled one of only two modern, high-speed printing facilities in the country, as well as many newspaper kiosks, and is subject to government influence. (references) |
Philippines | Leaders in both Christian and Muslim communities contend that economic disparities and ethnic tensions, more than religious differences, are at the root of the modern separatist movement that emerged in the early 1970's. Intermittent government efforts to integrate Muslims into political and economic society have achieved only limited success to date. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | All emirates have modern seaports. (references) |
Australia | Australia has modern, deep-water ports. (references) | |
West Bank | WB/G do not have a modern IPR rights regime. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | The new facility, which opened on September 5, holds 1200 prisoners and has larger cells and modern conveniences. (references) |
Swaziland | Such conditions improved following the 2000 opening of new institutions including a modern correctional facility for women. (references) | |
Mauritania | For commercial and other modern issues not addressed specifically by Shari'a, the law and courts treat women and men equally. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | Few opportunities exist for those who might wish to participate more fully in modern life. (references) |
Venezuela | Many indigenous people are isolated from modern civilization and lack access to basic health and educational facilities. (references) | |
Honduras | Indigenous and ancestral lands often are defined poorly in documents dating back to the mid-19th century and, in most cases, lack any legal title based on modern cadastral surveys. (references) | |
Minorities | Papua New Guinea | The number of deaths in the last few years has risen due to the availability of modern weapons. (references) |
Tanzania | These ethnic groups continued to seek compensation for past government discrimination seeking to make them adopt a more modern lifestyle and to restrict their access to pastoral lands that were turned into large government wheat farms. (references) | |
Kenya | Many factors contributed to interethnic conflicts, including the proliferation of guns, the commercialization of traditional cattle rustling, the weakening of state authority, the emergence of local militia leaders, the development of a modern warrior/bandit culture (distinct from the traditional culture), irresponsible local political leadership, shrinking economic prospects for affected groups, a regional drought, and the inability or unwillingness of security forces to stem the violence. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | Modern patent, trademark, and copyright laws are in place. (references) |
DENMARK | Denmark has an effective, modern, and swift customs administration. (references) | |
URUGUAY | The most serious lack of IPR protection is the lack of a modern copyright law. (references) | |
Political Rights | Qatar | The political institutions combine the characteristics of a traditional Bedouin tribal state and a modern bureaucracy. (references) |
Trade | Qatar | None of these currently meet the modern definition of free trade arrangements. (references) |
Chile | Modern facilities for packaging, manufacturing and exporting exist in each zone. (references) | |
Travel | Oman | Oman has a modern infrastructure. (references) |
Uk | The United Kingdom is stable and modern. (references) | |
Oman | Modern roads provide access to most of the country. (references) | |
Women | Swaziland | Even in the modern courts, sentences frequently result in several months in jail, a fine, or both. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | It is almost always done far from modern medical facilities, and techniques and hygiene do not meet modern medical standards. (references) | |
Mauritania | Women have legal rights to property and child custody, and, among the more modern and urbanized population, these rights are recognized. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | There is no child labor in the modern industrial sector. (references) |
India | Outside the modern industrial sector, laws are difficult to enforce. (references) | |
Guinea | In practice enforcement by ministry inspectors is limited to large firms in the modern sector of the economy. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BERENICE'S :HAIR:, n. A constellation (Coma Berenices) named in honor of one who sacrificed her hair to save her husband. Her locks an ancient lady gave Her loving husband's life to save; And men -- they honored so the dame -- Upon some stars bestowed her name. But to our modern married fair, Who'd give their lords to save their hair, No stellar recognition's given. There are not stars enough in heaven. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For me, the ATM is the model of modern convenience. |
George Will | I'm not alarmed by this. This is actually traditional. It's been used in almost all of America's declared wars. And we have just sort of stopped declaring wars in modern times and this is a war. |
Rush Limbaugh | Many people, including most students and many elected officials, agree that the United States is imperialist and that our military is the focus of evil in the modern world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The construction of a sufficient number of modern war ships and of their necessary armament should progress as rapidly as is consistent with care and perfection in plans and workmanship. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | But we are mindful today as never before of the friction of modern industrialism, and we must learn its causes and reduce its evil consequences by sober and tested methods. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Kennedy, and with our greatest modern legislator, Speaker Sam Rayburn. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We have learned at last to manage a modern economy to assure its continued growth. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We, therefore, want to explore a variety of paratransit modes, various types of buses, modern rapid transit, regional rail systems and light rail systems. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lifesaving drugs are an indispensable part of modern medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Modern" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Modern" is used about 13,141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.92% | 13,130 | 695 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.05% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13,141 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Rheiner Modern AG | Indonesia | P.T. Modern Photo Terbuka |
| Sweden | Modern Times Group MTG AB | USA | Modern Medical Modalities Corporation |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "modern": a flat with all modern conveniences ♦ in modern parlance ♦ modern antiques ♦ modern ballet ♦ modern biotechnology ♦ modern conveniences ♦ modern dance ♦ modern English ♦ modern era ♦ Modern Face ♦ modern facilities ♦ modern figures ♦ modern font ♦ modern grammar school ♦ modern greece ♦ modern greek ♦ modern Hebrew ♦ modern jazz ♦ modern languages ♦ modern law ♦ modern man ♦ Modern Movement ♦ modern studies ♦ Modern Style ♦ modern times ♦ Modern Times Group ♦ Modern Times International ♦ modern world ♦ secondary modern school ♦ writer of the modern persuasion. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "modern": modern-art, modern-built, modern-dance, modern-day, modern-design, modern-instrument, modern-language, modern-looking, modern-manners, modern-minded, modern-sounding, modern-style, modern-styled, modern-thinking, modern-year. | |
Ending with "modern": anti-modern, early-modern, non-modern, post-modern, pre-modern, secondary-modern, ultra-modern. | |
Containing "modern": secondary-modern-school. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
modern art | 2,698 | modern lighting | 131 |
modern furniture | 2,393 | modern english | 128 |
modern bride magazine | 836 | modern image | 126 |
modern bride | 766 | the tate modern | 122 |
modern talking | 639 | modern home | 114 |
modern hair style | 479 | d20 modern | 114 |
modern dance | 456 | modern health care | 114 |
museum of modern art | 345 | seven wonder of the modern world | 111 |
rockos modern life | 290 | modern office furniture | 105 |
modern | 288 | san francisco museum of modern art | 102 |
modern architecture | 286 | modern house plan | 96 |
thoroughly modern millie | 255 | modern coffee table | 93 |
modern rug | 243 | modern organic product | 92 |
modern sofa | 176 | this is the modern world | 87 |
modern bedroom furniture | 173 | modern chair | 86 |
modern language association | 154 | cut hair modern | 82 |
modern drummer | 148 | modern art poster | 82 |
contemporary modern furniture | 146 | modern design | 82 |
modern bed | 144 | modern post card | 82 |
modern curriculum press | 142 | modern home design | 80 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "modern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | modern. (various references) | |
Albanian | modern (high tech, latter day, modernistic, sought after, up to date). (various references) | |
Arabic | متجدد (regenerate, renewed, repeated), حديث جديد (contemporary, fresh, neoteric, new, recent, up to date), حداثي (modernistic), عصري (epochal, modernistic, new, up to date), جديد (brand new, fresh, hot, incoming, neoteric, new, novel, recent, unprecedented, unused, up to date), شخص ذو آراء عصرية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвременен (advanced, contemporaneous, contemporary, latter day, modernistic, neoteric, new, present, present day, recent, up to date, with it), нов (fresh, maiden, nascent, new, newfangled, novel, patent, recent, up to date, youthful), на мода, модерен (advanced, exclusive, fashionable, last, modernistic, modish, neoteric, new, sharp, up to date), моден (chic, current, fashionable, genteel, go, high-toned, in, mainstream, mod, modish, new, newfangled, nifty, rakish, saucy, smart, stylish, swanky, swell, swinging, swish). (various references) | |
Chinese | 现代, 現在 (at present, current, now, nowadays, present), 現今 (now, nowadays), 當前 (current, present, to be facing, today's), 今 (current, now, present, this, today). (various references) | |
Czech | moderní (advanced, contemporary, fashionable, filigree, going, latter day, mod, neoteric, neoterical, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, present day, trendy, up to date, with it). (various references) | |
Danish | moderne. (various references) | |
Dutch | nieuwerwets, modern. (various references) | |
Esperanto | moderna. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tíðarhóskandi, nútíðar-. (various references) | |
Farsi | مدرن , نوین (New, Young), کنونی , جدید (Maiden, New, Novel, Recent, Unprecedented, Uptodate), امروزی . (various references) | |
Finnish | uudenaikainen (fashionable, new-fangled, up-to-date), nykyaikainen (present-day, up-to-date), ajanmukainen (up to date). (various references) | |
French | moderne. (various references) | |
German | modern (fashionable, fashionably, latter day, mod, modernly, new, new-fashioned, present day, progressive, recent, rot, trendily, trendy, up, up to date, up-to-date), zeitgemäß (appropriate, becoming, seasonable, seasonably, seemly, suitable, timely, topical, up to date), neuzeitlich. (various references) | |
Greek | σύγχρονοσ (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, cotemporary, current, latter day, synchronous, up to date), σύγχρονος (a latter-day hero, contemporary, latter-day, up to date), νέοσ (fresh, green, juvenile, new, novel, young, young man), νεώτεροσ (junior, later), μοντέρνοσ (contemporary, cotemporary, fashionable, modish, new fangled, stylish), μοντέρνος. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | modern. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מודרני (latter day), חדיש (brand new, novel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | modern (jazz, latter day, modernism, new, present day, recent, sophisticated, trendy, up to date, up-to-date), mai (hodiernal, latter day, present day, present-day, recent, today's). (various references) | |
Indonesian | modern, baru (barely, fresh, just, new, newly, not until, only now). (various references) | |
Italian | moderno (modish, of the period, recent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 近代的 , モザイク卵 (greenish gray, mob, mock-up, modem, modern art, modern ballet, modern craft, modern dance, modern jazz, modern life, modern living, modernism, modernist, modernity, modernize, modernology, modification, modified American plan, modify, modiste, modular, modularization, modulation, module, modulo, mop, mosaic egg, Moscow, mosque, mosquito-weight, moss green, motel, motif, motivation, motivation research, motto, Mozambique, sexy), 今日的 (up-to-date). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | モダン , きんだいてき, こんにちてき (up-to-date). (various references) | |
Korean | 현대 (Contemporary, present-day). (various references) | |
Manx | noa-emshiragh (latterday, modernistic, new-style), noa (fresh, new, novel, original, recent), jeinagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | modernu, moderno. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odernmay.(various references) | |
Polish | nowoczesny. (various references) | |
Portuguese | moderno (boss, fashionable, fresh, go-ahead, informed, knowing, latter-day, new, present-day, recent, smart, tony, up-to-date). (various references) | |
Romanian | modern (last, up to date). (various references) | |
Russian | современный (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, latter day, latter-day, modern-day, neoteric, new, nowaday, nowaday's, present day, present-day, recent, up to date). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | moderan (fashionable, hip, neoteric, newfangled), savremen (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, modern-day, neoteric, new, up to date). (various references) | |
Spanish | moderno (hip, latter day, live, state of the art, trendy, up to date, up to now). (various references) | |
Swedish | modern (fashionable, in, latter day, modish, neoteric, new, smart, up to date). (various references) | |
Thai | สมัยใหม่, คนสมัยใหม่. (various references) | |
Turkish | modern (advanced, contemporary, groovy, hip, in the groove, latterday, neoteric, new, streamlined, up to date). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tдze (latest, new), hдzirki (contemporary, present). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сучасна людина, сучасний (actual, coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, latter day, neoteric, new, new-day, nowaday, present day, recent, up to date, up-dated, with it). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hiện đại người ưa thích cái mới, người cận đại, người có quan điểm mới, hiện đại cận đại. (various references) | |
Welsh | diweddar (belated, late, recent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | modo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "modern": moderne, moderner, modernes, modernest, modernisation, modernisations, modernise, modernised, modernises, modernising, modernism, modernisms, modernist, modernistic, modernists, modernities, modernity, modernization, modernizations, modernize, modernized, modernizer, modernizers, modernizes, modernizing, modernly, modernness, modernnesses, moderns. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "modern": antimodern, hypermodern, postmodern, premodern, supermodern, ultramodern. (additional references) | |
Words containing "modern": antimodernist, antimodernists, antimoderns, hypermodernist, hypermodernists, postmodernism, postmodernisms, postmodernist, postmodernists, ultramodernist, ultramodernists, unmodernized. (additional references) | |
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"Modern" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hodierna, Hodierne, Maddern, Maderna, Maderno, Modart, moden, Modeno, modere, moderne, modernen, moderno, Modin, Modlen, modred, modren, modrn, Modugna, Modugno, Modwen, moeder, Moeran, morden, mordern, Moxen, mudeer, muden, mudre, noder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "modern" (pronounced mÄ"dern) |
| 5 | m Ä" d er n | postmodern, ultramodern. |
| 3 | -d er n | premodern. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: normed, rodmen. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: demon, drone, enorm, monde, redon. | |
-2 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, done, dore, dorm, mend, meno, mode, more, morn, nerd, node, nome, norm, omen, omer, redo, rend, rode. | |
-3 letters: den, doe, dom, don, dor, end, eon, ern, med, men, mod, mon, mor, nod, nom, nor, ode, one, ore, red, rem, rod, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: de. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: doormen, madrone, minored, moderne, moderns, mordent, mourned, rodsmen. | |
+2 letters: boardmen, demeanor, domineer, dormient, dragomen, enamored, endoderm, entoderm, informed, madrones, marooned, mentored, moderner, modernes, modernly, mongered, mordents, normande, pomander, radiomen, ransomed, romanced, swordmen, syndrome, unformed, unmoored. | |
+3 letters: adornment, andromeda, commander, commender, condemner, condemnor, confirmed, conformed, crimsoned, deforming, demeanors, demeanour, dentiform, deworming, domineers, ealdorman, ealdormen, embrowned, enamoured, endoderms, endomorph, endosperm, endotherm, entoderms, forenamed, handsomer, imbrowned, indecorum, meandrous, memoranda, modernest, modernise, modernism, modernist, modernity, modernize, moldering, monitored, mordanted, overmined, pomanders, premodern, princedom, promenade, randomize, recommend, remolding, remounted, rhodamine, romanised, romanized, roundsmen, swordsmen, syndromes, tormented, unarmored, undermost, unfreedom, uniformed, unmourned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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