Modern can simply mean something that is "up-to-date", "trendy", "new", or from the present time.

It can also refer to the "modern age", a very loosely defined time period which generally commences at or some time after the Renaissance in Europe.

See also

• 20th century classical music
• Modernist poetry
• Modernism
• Postmodernism

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Modern is also the name of the last album of the British punk rock band, The Buzzcocks.