modern
Definitions
adj
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[…].
Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
noun
Someone who lives in modern times.
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.
What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]