MODERN ERA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The present or recent times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("modern era" is a kind of...):

epoch; era (a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modern era"):

information age (a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks)

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