Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Postmodern.
  • adjective Postmodernist.
  • noun A postmodernist.
  • noun Postmodernism.

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  • abbreviation post-modern

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[po(st)mo(dern).]

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Examples

  • Tomatoes were originally known as love apples in England, possibly based on a mistranslation of the Italian name pomo d'oro golden apple as pomo d'amore.

    At My Table 2007

  • Tomatoes were originally known as love apples in England, possibly based on a mistranslation of the Italian name pomo d'oro golden apple as pomo d'amore.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Literary critics now acknowledge that postmodernism never went away, but to distract us from its advanced age they cry up a new "pomo" wunderkind every year or two.

    A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

  • Literary critics now acknowledge that postmodernism never went away, but to distract us from its advanced age they cry up a new "pomo" wunderkind every year or two.

    A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

  • Looks like a kind of pomo "I was critiquing authenticity and laughing at you all for years" is gonna be his best move,

    Popular Comments Across MetaFilter 2009

  • But the video is hardly the vile, smutty rag Camp is making it out to be, and Tripp is hardly a "pomo" as he is falsely accused on his blog.

    Hip and Thigh 2008

  • But the video is hardly the vile, smutty rag Camp is making it out to be, and Tripp is hardly a "pomo" as he is falsely accused on his blog.

    Hip and Thigh 2008

  • Looks like a kind of pomo "I was critiquing authenticity and laughing at you all for years" is gonna be his best move, but I can't wait to see if he tries that, a "fuck you all i have no comment" or a standard contrite apology (which honestly seems unworkable here, given the years of deception).

    Popular Comments Across MetaFilter 2009

  • But a literal instability between different versions of the "same" text is a bit too pomo even for me.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • Transsexuality had been * so* medicalised (not to mention slagged off by rad-fems) that the whole pomo-influenced transgender theory thing was kinda necessary and gathered a number of critical insights – even if it was perhaps overly utopian and celebratory of transgression for its own sake.

    Gender activism begins with gender rage 2009

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  • Short for postmodernism.

    May 24, 2009