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Webster 1913 Edition

Modernization

Modˊern-i-za′tion

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Noun.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

Definition 2024

modernization

modernization

English

Alternative forms

modernisation (British spelling)

Noun

modernization ‎(countable and uncountable, plural modernizations)

the process of modernizing

Translations

process of modernizing

Arabic: تَحْدِيث m ‎(taḥdīṯ)
Asturian: modernización f
Catalan: modernització f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 現代化 (zh), 现代化 (zh) ‎(xiàndàihuà), 近代化 (zh) ‎(jìndàihuà)
Czech: modernizace f
Dutch: modernisering (nl) f
Finnish: modernisointi (fi)
French: modernisation (fr) f
Galician: modernización (gl) f
German: Modernisierung (de) f

Hungarian: modernizáció
Italian: modernizzazione (it) f
Japanese: 近代化 (ja) ‎(きんだいか, kindaika), 現代化 (ja) ‎(げんだいか, gendaika)
Korean: 현대화 ‎(hyeondaehwa) (現代化 (ko))
Macedonian: осовременување n ‎(osovremenúvanje), модернизација f ‎(modernizácija)
Portuguese: modernização f
Russian: модерниза́ция (ru) f ‎(modernizácija)
Spanish: modernización (es) f
Swedish: modernisering c
Telugu: ఆధునికీకరణ (te) ‎(ādhunikīkaraṇa)
Vietnamese: sự hiện đại hoá

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