modernization Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun making modern in appearance or behavior
    modernisation.
    • the modernization of Nigeria will be a long process
  2. noun a modernized version (as of a play)

WordNet

Mod`ern*i*za"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

Webster 1913