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MODERNIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does modernist mean?
• MODERNIST (noun)
The noun MODERNIST has 1 sense:
1. an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
Familiarity information: MODERNIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("modernist" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Derivation:
modernism (genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres)
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