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Definition of Modern times
1. Noun. The circumstances and ideas of the present age. "In modern times like these"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern Times
Literary usage of Modern times
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Alone of all the great countries of modern times the United States has no historic
architecture of its own. Groat Britain and the Continent abound in ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"There are other reasons of a like kind which might further explain the exceeding
difficulty of writing a history of modern times on any consecutive plan. ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Public borrowing for wars an important form of such loans in modern times.
Great wars and war borrowing give rise to both economic and fiscal problems. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In modern times a mixture of ether and chloroform is generally used. ... A third
achievement of modern times is operating LEOPOLD ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"It is said that in art, in modern times at least, we have no style of our own.
Neither had they ; devoted to navigation and commerce, their art, ..."
6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Science of money: as derived from actual historical experiments, both In ancient
and modern times. O. 230p. '$2. Cambridge encycl. ..."
7. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"In modern times and especially in democratic communities, the barriers which separate
... In modern times, we have negro slavery, Chinese and coolie labor, ..."
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