modernization

noun

mod·​ern·​i·​za·​tion ˌmä-dər-nə-ˈzā-shən 

1

: the act of modernizing : the state of being modernized

2

: something modernized : a modernized version

Examples of modernization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Greenland was in the early stages of its modernization. —Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 July 2025

Roosevelt has been finishing a $200 million school modernization project that included a new gym and new performing arts center. —Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025

At the time of $45-million modernization project at the facility in 2017, workers made over 2,500 barrels daily. —Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025

Onganía promised nothing less than a new social order: a project of economic modernization marked by austerity, and a cultural policy that included censoring artists, attacking the autonomy of universities, banning miniskirts, and prohibiting long hair for men. —Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1770, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for modernization

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration