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mod
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mod has 1 sense
- mod(n = noun.person) Array - a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers; Array is a member of mods
is a kind of adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager
Adjective mod has 1 sense
- mod(s = adj.all) modern, modernistic - relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mod, abbr. (in the UK) Ministry of Defence.
mod, adj. & n. colloq.
--adj. modern, esp. in style of dress.
--n. Brit. a young person (esp. in the 1960s) of a group aiming at sophistication and smart modern dress.
--adj. modern, esp. in style of dress.
--n. Brit. a young person (esp. in the 1960s) of a group aiming at sophistication and smart modern dress.
Idiom
mod cons modern conveniences.
mod, prep. Math. = MODULO.
mod, n. a Highland Gaelic meeting for music and poetry.
Etymology
Gael. mod
THESAURUS
mod
a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, avant-garde, contemporary, current, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, hip, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfashioned, now, popular, present-day, present-time, prevalent, progressive, smart, streamlined, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out
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