Definition of Modern era

1. Noun. The present or recent times.

Generic synonyms: Epoch, Era
Specialized synonyms: Information Age

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern Era

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moderatorships
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moderatour
moderatours
moderatress
moderatrix
moderatrixes
modern
modern-day
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modern antique
modern art
modern ballet
modern dance
modern era (current term)
modern font
modern genetics
modern jazz
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modern pentathlon
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modern world
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modernisations

Literary usage of Modern era

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"... as a revolt against authority and tradition, as a protest against Characteris- absolutism and collectivism, as a demand for free- modern era ^om *n ..."

2. New Viewpoints in American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1922)
"CHAPTER XI THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE modern era It is the custom of students of ... Therefore it may be admissible to think of the modern era of America ..."

3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The NEOLITHIC era; a section of the Recent period, following the Reindeer era, and commencing the MODERN era. The terms Paleolithic and Neolithic were ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"modern era. 1. Modern relics of Man. — While the animal system is not now working onward to a loftier limit, except so far as there is improvement in the ..."

5. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"THE modern era. Each period in the history of the civilization of a particular people, ... Thus the so-called modern era appears as the uninterrupted, ..."

6. Historical Fiction Chronologically and Historically Related by James Ross Kaye (1920)
"PART III THE modern era In passing from one era to another in human history it would be a mistake ... During this modern era of our life, beginning with the ..."

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