modernization

English

Alternative forms

• modernisation (British spelling)

Etymology

From modernize +‎ -ation or French modernisation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒdənɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, /ˌmɒdənaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑdɚnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, /ˌmɑdɚnaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/, [ˌmɑɾɚ-]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: mod‧ern‧i‧za‧tion

Noun

modernization (countable and uncountable, plural modernizations)

1. The act, process, or result of modernizing.

Hypernyms

• update

Hyponyms

• aggiornamento

Derived terms

• antimodernization
• demodernization
• overmodernization
• premodernization
• unmodernization

Related terms

• modernize
• modernizer

Translations

process of modernizing

• Albanian: modernizim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَحْدِيث (ar) m (taḥdīṯ)
• Armenian: արդիականացում (hy) (ardiakanacʻum)
• Asturian: modernización f
• Belarusian: мадэрніза́цыя f (madernizácyja)
• Bengali: আধুনিকীকরণ (bn) (adhunikikron)
• Bulgarian: модерниза́ция (bg) (modernizácija)
• Catalan: modernització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現代化 / 现代化 (zh) (xiàndàihuà), 近代化 (zh) (jìndàihuà)

• Czech: modernizace f
• Danish: modernisering c
• Dutch: modernisering (nl) f, modernisatie (nl) m
• Estonian: moderniseerimine, ajakohastamine
• Finnish: modernisointi (fi)
• French: modernisation (fr) f
• Galician: modernización (gl) f
• German: Modernisierung (de) f
• Hindi: आधुनिकीकरण m (ādhunikīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: modernizáció (hu), korszerűsítés (hu), modernizálás (hu)
• Icelandic: nútímavæðing f
• 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)
• Kazakh: жаңғырту (jaŋğırtuw)
• Korean: 현대화(現代化) (hyeondaehwa), 근대화(近代化) (ko) (geundaehwa)
• Latvian: modernizācija f
• Macedonian: осовременување n (osovremenuvanje), модернизација f (modernizacija)
• Malayalam: ആധുനികവൽക്കരണം (ml) (ādhunikavalkkaraṇaṁ), ആധുനികീകരണം (ādhunikīkaraṇaṁ)
• Polish: modernizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: modernização f
• Romanian: modernizare (ro), modernizație
• Russian: модерниза́ция (ru) f (modernizácija)
• Slovak: modernizácia
• Spanish: modernización (es) f
• Swedish: modernisering (sv) c
• Telugu: ఆధునికీకరణ (te) (ādhunikīkaraṇa)
• Ukrainian: модерніза́ція f (modernizácija), осуча́снення n (osučásnennja), модернізува́ння n (modernizuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: sự hiện đại hoá (vi)
• Welsh: moderneiddiad m
• Zhuang: yendaiva