What is the meaning of modern?

noun

• A contemporary person.
• A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.
  • synonyms: modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

adjective

• Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages.
  • usage: "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
• Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
  • usage: "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";
  • synonyms: mod, modernistic
• Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture.
• Ahead of the times.
  • usage: "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough"
  • synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative
• Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.
  • usage: "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
  • synonyms: New