MODERN WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modern world mean? 

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

1. the circumstances and ideas of the present age

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERN WORLD (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 world" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Then a crash followed, offering a warning sign to the modern world about the dangers of overpopulation.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)