mod ‧ ern ‧ is ‧ m /ˈmɒdənɪz ə m $ ˈmɑːdər-/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ modernity , ↑ modernization , ↑ modernism , modernist, ↑ modernity , ↑ modernizer , ↑ modernization ; adjective : ↑ modern , ↑ modernist , ↑ modernistic ; verb : ↑ modernize ]
a style of art, building etc that was popular especially from the 1940s to the 1960s, in which artists used simple shapes and modern artificial materials ⇨ post-modernism :
the rise of modernism in Paris
—modernist adjective , noun [countable] :
the modernist school