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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state or quality of being modern.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or state of being modern; modernism in time of spirit.
  • noun Something that is modern.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Modernness; something modern.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the quality of being modern or contemporary.
  • noun modern times.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being current or of the present

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