1.Definition: ahead of the times

Related Adjective(s):advanced, innovative

2.Definition: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

"Modern art", "Modern furniture", "Modern history", "Totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

3.Definition: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

4.Definition: relating to a recently developed fashion or style

"Their offices are in a modern skyscraper", "Tables in modernistic designs"

Related Adjective(s):mod, modernistic

5.Definition: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

"Modern English"

Related Adjective(s):new