Modern

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Modern may refer to:

History

• Modern history
  • Early Modern period
  • Late Modern period
    • 18th century
    • 19th century
    • 20th century
  • Contemporary history
• Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century

Philosophy and sociology

• Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies
  • Late modernity

Art

• Modernism
  • Modernist poetry
• Modern art, a form of art
• Modern dance, a dance form developed in the early 20th century
• Modern architecture, a broad movement and period in architectural history
• Modern music (disambiguation)

Geography

• Modra, a Slovak city, referred to in the German language as "Modern"

Typography

• Modern (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP
• Another name for the typeface classification known as Didone (typography)
• Modern, a generic font family name for fixed-pitch serif and sans serif fonts (for example, Courier and Pica), used e.g. in OpenDocument format or Rich Text Format

Music

• Modern (Buzzcocks  album)
• Modern (EP), an EP by Gas
• Modern Records, a Los Angeles record label
• Modern (Amber Smith album)

Other uses

• Modernform Group, traded as MODERN, a furniture manufacturer and distributor in Thailand
• Modern Defense, a chess opening
• Modern (political party), Polish political party

See also

• Contemporary (disambiguation)
• Early modern human
• Modern age (disambiguation)
• Modern agriculture (disambiguation)
• Modern English
• Modern liberalism in the United States
• Modern Man (disambiguation)
• Modern paganism
• Modern philosophy
• Modern republicanism
• Modern Times (disambiguation)
• Postmodernism
• The Modern (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 25 December 2023, at 00:14