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noun 
  1. 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 
  1. Pertaining to the current time and style.
Translations: 
  • French: moderne
  • German: modern
    1. German, modern
    2. Dutch: modern
      (trans-mid)
    3. Spanish: moderno
Etymology: moderne, modernus; from modo "just now", originally ablative of modus "measure"; hence, by measure, "just now". Seemode.

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