1. Making modern in appearance or behaviour
   "the modernization of Nigeria will be a long process"
   - modernisation [Brit] 
2. A modernized version (as of a play)

Derived forms: modernizations

See also: modernize

Type of: adaptation, improvement, version

Encyclopedia: Modernization

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