"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Note that forest does not have the modern meaning of "heavily wooded".
- By the 19th century, the term had begun to take on its modern meaning.
- The term existed before 1859, but got its modern meaning after Darwin established the idea of common descent.
- "Informed consent" is a technical term with a modern meaning.
- Chinese players (and others) often call this piece a car, since that is one modern meaning of the character 車.
- This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob."
- Uses of the term can be found dating back to the seventeenth century, but these are unrelated to its modern meaning.
- However, its modern meaning as an act of human creation did not emerge until after the Enlightenment.
- However, in the 1930s, the term took on its more modern meaning of an individual's conversion to conformity.
- The word originally could refer to any small boat; the modern meaning arose around 1480.
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