of or pertaining to late modernity

plural of modern convenience

A human language which is living or recently extinct.

(education, Britain) In the UK, from 1944 to the 1970s, a secondary school for children who had failed the eleven plus examination.

A relatively modern object that is collected because of its enduring style or design.

The form of Portuguese spoken since the sixteenth century.

All the behavioural and cognitive traits that distinguishes Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins and primates

plural of modern language

Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s.

(biology, sometimes capitalized) The mathematical framework unifying Darwinian evolution and Mendelian heredity into a coherent theory.