MODERN ERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modern era mean? 

• MODERN ERA (noun)
  The noun MODERN ERA has 1 sense:

1. the present or recent times

  Familiarity information: MODERN ERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERN ERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The present or recent times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("modern era" is a kind of...):

epoch; era (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modern era"):

information age (a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks)

 Context examples 

Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)