modern in WordNet English dictionary

1. ahead of the times
   "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
   advanced  forward-looking  innovative  modern 
   
2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style
   "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";
   mod  modern  modernistic 
   
3. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
   "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
   modern 
   
4. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
   modern 
   

1. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
   modern  modern font  Bodoni  Bodoni font 
   
2. a contemporary person
   modern