"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more altruism inclined in mythology.
- In modern connotations it refers either to the projection of a united Christian Church or to world civilizations.
- Tolkien may have just chosen the word "vampire" for its modern connotations of bat-associated monsters.
- That older term, with the modern connotation of elevated prestige, is back in fashion among native peoples themselves.
- At that time the word "great" simply meant big, and had not acquired its modern connotations of excellence.
- While modern connotations are recent having been concretised in the centuries following the 19th, ancient references abound.
- In 2004 the museum encountered problems receiving emails due to the modern connotations of its name confusing pornography filters.
- Words like "secrecy" and "concealment" began taking on their modern, obscene connotations.
- However, the term "Islamic state" has taken on a more specific modern connotation since the 20th century.
- In modern Greek colloquial connotation, the word katharevousa has come to mean "formal language".
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