moderns
USMOD-urnz/ˈmɑdɚnz/UKMOD-uhnz/ˈmɒd(ə)nz/
- 1Plural of modern.
The long quarrel between the ancients and the moderns shaped centuries of literary debate.
Early critics mocked the moderns, but museums now prize their paintings.
Note
A noun made from an adjective: modern, meaning current rather than ancient, came to name a person who lives in modern times, and it forms its plural with a regular -s. It most often appears with the definite article as the moderns, frequently set against the ancients in debates that pit contemporary innovation against classical authority.
moderns is a form of modern
modern, noun: A person who lives in the present age, as contrasted with people of earlier historical eras. Full entry
- Forms
- modernmoderns plural
- Spelling
- modern → moderns: add -s
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