MODERN TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modern times mean? 

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

1. the circumstances and ideas of the present age

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERN TIMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The circumstances and ideas of the present age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

contemporary world; modern times; modern world; present times

Context example:

in modern times like these

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

times (a more or less definite period of time now or previously present)

 Context examples 

In modern times, Pluto entered Capricorn in 2007 and will leave your sign in 2023.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion − what is now known as Tycho’s supernova remnant.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

In modern times, disturbances associated with land use are believed to be a dominant factor contributing to the activation of stabilized vegetated dunes in drylands.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

But in modern times, the Great Red Spot appears to be diminishing in size, as measured by Earth-based telescopes and spacecraft.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

These they compared to those of 26 modern ibises from different parts of Africa — ibises of this species disappeared from Egypt itself during modern times.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

In modern times, breeders have concentrated on traits such as yield, shelf life, disease resistance and stress tolerance, traits that have been economically important to growers.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)

Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Michael Polito of Louisiana State University co-led a team of researchers working to understand how human hunting of seals and whales over the last century, and fishing in modern times, has affected penguin populations.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)