Modern (disambiguation)

Modern generally denotes something that is "up-to-date", "new", or contemporary.

It may refer to:

in 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

in history

• Modern history
  • Early Modern period
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • Contemporary history

in 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)

as a proper name

• Modern (album), an album from the British punk rock band, Buzzcocks
• Modern Records, Los Angeles record label
• Modern (typeface) is a raster font packaged with Windows XP
• Another name for the typeface classification known as Didone
• 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
• Modernform Group, the furniture manufacturer and distributor in Thailand
• Modern Defense, a chess opening

toponymy

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

See also

• Contemporary (disambiguation)
• Postmodernism
• Modern Times (disambiguation)
• Modern Man (disambiguation)
• Modern age (disambiguation)