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moderner

moderner is the comparative form of modern.

Meaning of modern

Adjective

modern (comparative moderner or more modern, superlative modernest or most modern or modernmost)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    contemporary
  2. Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

See all 3 meanings of modern

Noun

moderner (plural moderners)

  1. Somebody who lives in the modern age.
    • However, this ideal was only partially realised, for God remains to be the centre of the moderners.1999, Y. Masih, A Critical History of Western Philosophy: Greek, Medieval and Modern

Forms of moderner

pluralmoderners

Origin of moderner

From modern + -er.

Questions about moderner

What does moderner mean?
Moderner means somebody who lives in the modern age.
What is moderner the comparative form of?
Moderner is the comparative form of modern.
What part of speech is moderner?
Moderner is a noun.
What is the plural of moderner?
The plural of moderner is moderners.

Words near moderner in the dictionary

  1. Modern Turkish
  2. modern up
  3. modern-day
  4. moderne
  5. moderned up
  6. moderner
  7. moderners
  8. modernest
  9. modernicide
  10. modernicides
  11. moderning up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moderner (page history and authors); modern (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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