modern setting
Current era locale
A modern setting is a time and place in the present day or recent past, as opposed to historical or futuristic periods.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of fiction: The play transplants Romeo and Juliet to a modern setting.
A story with a modern setting features contemporary technology, social norms, and cultural references.
- contemporaryOf the present age
- urbanPertaining to cities
- cityLarge populated area
- high riseMultistory urban building
- sleekSmooth and elegant
flat screen · smart home · minimalist · technology · smartphone · skyscraper · glass · steel · apartment · open floor plan · digital · social media · coworking space · coffee shop · craft beer · food truck · subway · ride share
- gem settingsscalloped, fishtail, martini, tulip, buttercup
- otome gamesfemale protagonist, heroine, visual novel, dating sim, good ending
- stagingstaging, stage, set, set design, set dressing
modern settinghistorical setting
Past time and place
period setting · medieval setting · antiquity · bygone era · classical antiquity
modern, setting, modernity, modernism, modernist, modernize, modernization, modernized, modernizing