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modernly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English modern Middle English -ly English -ly English modernly From modern + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a modern manner or style.
   • The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them. 2004, Anthony Byars, Texas, in Fact:
2. In modern times; recently.
   • If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […] 1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225:

Forms

Translations (7)

it modernamente (in a modern manner) · sv modernt (in a modern manner) · pl nowocześnie (in a modern manner) · pl modernistycznie (in a modern manner) · fr modernement (in a modern manner) · fi modernisti (in a modern manner) · fi nykyaikaisesti (in a modern manner)