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noun
- Someone who lives in modern times.
- 1956: 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. " John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, p. 144.
adjective
- Pertaining to the current time and style.
Etymology: moderne, modernus; from modo "just now", originally ablative of modus "measure"; hence, by measure, "just now". Seemode.
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