Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has 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[…].
2018, Timothy Snyder, "How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?", The New York Times, June 14, 2018
In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
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.
The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
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.
modern in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic
Schmuckdesignerin ist scheinbar zum Modeberuf unter prominenten Frauen geworden. Jewelry designer has apparently become a fashionable career for women celebrities.
Mode
noun
fashion, mode, vogue
examples of die Mode; -n
- die neueste, herrschende Mode
- etwas ist [ganz] aus der Mode [gekommen]
- etwas ist [in] Mode
- mit der Mode gehen
- jede Mode mitmachen
- die neuesten Moden tragen, vorführen
- diese Sportarten sind jetzt [große] Mode
- (umgangssprachlich) was sind denn das für neue Moden?
- es ist zur Mode (abwertend;
- geworden, von Sparmaßnahmen zu sprechen
Farsi meaning of die Mode; -n
[اسم]
die Mode
/ˈmoːdə/
قابل شمارش مونث
[جمع: Moden][ملکی: Mode]
1 مد [مدل لباس یا رفتار رایج]
1.Das ist die neueste Mode! Rote Hose und blaue Bluse.
etwas, was dem gerade herrschenden, bevorzugten Geschmack, dem Zeitgeschmack entspricht; etwas, was einem zeitbedingten verbreiteten Interesse, Gefallen, Verhalten entspricht
Beispiele
diese Sportarten sind jetzt [große] Mode
(umgangssprachlich) was sind denn das für neue Moden? (was soll denn das auf einmal?)
es ist zur Mode (abwertend; zur neuerdings weitverbreiteten Gepflogenheit) geworden, von Sparmaßnahmen zu sprechen
