"Tom, you translated this, right?" "Yeah, why?" "What's 'modemism'?" "I dunno, but it was written in the text." "Really?" "Really! Take a look!" "Ah, wait, but it says 'modernism'!"
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Modernism
Synonyms for "modernism" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
14 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
25 translations across 24 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- modernismu noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Belarusian
1 entries- мадэрні́зм noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Catalan
1 entries- modernisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 現代主義 /现代主义 noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
- 現代派 /现代派 noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Dutch
1 entries- modernisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Finnish
1 entries- modernismi noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
French
1 entries- modernisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Galician
1 entries- modernismo noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
German
1 entries- Modernismus noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Greek
1 entries- νεωτερισμός noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Hindi
1 entries- आधुनिकतावाद noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Italian
1 entries- modernismo noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Japanese
1 entries- モダニズム noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Malayalam
1 entries- ആധുനികത noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Māori
1 entries- angahoutanga noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Norman
1 entries- modèrnisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- modernisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- modernisme noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Polish
1 entries- modernizm noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Portuguese
1 entries- modernismo noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Russian
1 entries- модерни́зм noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Spanish
1 entries- modernismo noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Ukrainian
1 entries- модерні́зм noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Yiddish
1 entries- מאָדערניזם noun (any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Postmodernism is different from modernism.
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Algiers should have a unique form of modernism.
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Kahn, a University of Pennsylvania professor, taught at Yale part-time — when he wasn't designing other icons of modernism, including the Kimbell Museum of Art in Texas, the Indian Institute of Management, and Bangladesh's parliament building — as well as another museum for Yale, the Center for British Art.
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