Modern may refer to:
History
- Modern history
- Early Modern period
- Late Modern period
- Contemporary history
- Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
Philosophy and sociology
- Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies
Art
- Modernism
- Modern art, a form of art
- Modern dance, a dance form developed in the early 20th century
- Modern architecture, a broad movement and period in architectural history
- Modern music (disambiguation)
Geography
- Modra, a Slovak city, referred to in the German language as "Modern"
Typography
- Modern (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP
- Another name for the typeface classification known as Didone (typography)
- Modern, a generic font family name for fixed-pitch serif and sans serif fonts (for example, Courier and Pica), used e.g. in OpenDocument format or Rich Text Format
Music
- Modern (Buzzcocks album)
- Modern (EP), an EP by Gas
- Modern Records, a Los Angeles record label
- Modern (Amber Smith album)
Other uses
- Modernform Group, traded as MODERN, a furniture manufacturer and distributor in Thailand
- Modern Defense, a chess opening
- Modern (political party), Polish political party
See also
- Contemporary (disambiguation)
- Early modern human
- Modern age (disambiguation)
- Modern Man (disambiguation)
- Modern Times (disambiguation)
- Postmodernism
- The Modern (disambiguation)