Traditional vs Modern - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between traditional and modern is that traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the scriptures while modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. As a noun modern is someone who lives in modern times.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
traditional English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
- I think her traditional values are antiquated .
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
Antonyms
* nontraditional, non-traditional
* untraditional
Derived terms
* traditionally
Related terms
* tradition
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modern English
Adjective
(en-adj)
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Obama goes troll-hunting
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(lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Synonyms
* contemporary
Antonyms
* dated
* old
* pre-modern
* ancient
Derived terms
* modern-day
* modernise, modernize verb
* modernity noun
* postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern)
* premodern
* early modern
Noun
( en noun)
Someone who lives in modern times.
* 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
* 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
- Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.
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