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Definition of Modern world
1. Noun. The circumstances and ideas of the present age. "In modern times like these"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern World
Literary usage of Modern world
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"VIRGIL, AS A LINK BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND modern world. ... The most obvious
point of contrast between the ancient and the modern world, perhaps — to single ..."
2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"As the modern world nowadays is constantly talking of democracy, and as the modern
idea of democracy is something widely different from the democracy of the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... whose painted work is characterized by all the art of gradation and harmony
known to the modern world, abstains from doing such purely decorative work. ..."
4. Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day by John William Mackail (1922)
"VIRGIL IN THE MEDIEVAL AND modern world VIRGIL'S fame and his popularity were
both established in his own lifetime, and both had a great accession on the ..."
5. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... HAS been remarked that Caesar inaugurated the modern world on the side of
reality, while its spiritual and inward existence was unfolded under Augustus. ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"... modern world ARTHUR DEERIN CALL, AM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT I. FIVE HUNDRED
YEARS OF SCHOLASTICISM Scholasticism dominant in Europe during the eleventh, ..."
7. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Contrast of the ancient and modern world; effect of Macedonian and Roman conquests.
— In the course of our narrative we are now approaching a point when a ..."
8. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Contrast of the ancient and modern world; effect of Macedonian and Roman conquests.
— In the course of our narrative we are now approaching a point when a ..."
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