moderns

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Synonyms for moderns

noun sounds that are pleasant, harmonized

Antonyms for moderns

silence

Word Origin & History

c.1500, "now existing;" 1580s, "of or pertaining to present or recent times;" from Middle French moderne (15c.) and directly from Late Latin modernus "modern" (Priscian, Cassiodorus), from Latin modo "just now, in a (certain) manner," from modo (adv.) "to the measure," ablative of modus "manner, measure" (see mode (n.1)). Extended form modern-day attested from 1909.

In Shakespeare, often with a sense of "every-day, ordinary, commonplace." Slang abbreviation mod first attested 1960. Modern art is from 1807 (by contrast to ancient); modern dance first attested 1912; first record of modern jazz is from 1954. Modern conveniences first recorded 1926.

Example Sentences for moderns

The ancients, Sir, are the ancients; but we are the moderns.

The most admired of our moderns know nothing of this art: Why?

Alexander Setonius, a Scot, was first of the moderns to achieve it.

Earlier writers on these themes were timid; the moderns are bored.

There are other questions familiar to the moderns, which have no place in ancient philosophy.

To the moderns the Conquest is now little more than a change of dynasty.

We ain't as mealy-mouthed and as p'lite and as smooth-tongued as the moderns.

And in that exclusive faith Lord Nelson appears to us as the first of the moderns.

How he had suffered—he, modern of moderns, dreamer of dreams, and ponderer of problems!

He had not only a true appreciation of the old masters, but sympathy with the moderns.