modernist

CIDE DICTIONARY

modernist, n. [Cf. F. moderniste.].

•  One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.  [1913 Webster]
•  An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

THESAURUS

modernist

Meistersinger, Parnassian, Young Turk, arch-poet, arriviste, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bright young man, bucoliast, comer, elegist, epic poet, fili, fledgling, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, nouveau riche, novus homo, occasional poet, odist, parvenu, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, rising generation, satirist, scop, skald, sonneteer, stripling, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, upstart, vers libriste, vers-librist