mod

See also: Mod, MOD, MoD, mód, mōd, möd, mod., and møð

Translingual

Etymology 1

Clipping of English modulus.

Symbol

mod

(mathematics) modulus
7 mod 2 = 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of English Mobilian Trade.

Symbol

mod

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mobilian.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

video game modding

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /mɑd/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒd/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -ɒd
Homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)

Noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
(UK) A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
- 1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 March 2024:
  It was “Mods” against “Rockers” and the police against both as this quiet seaside town of 28,000 exploded with teen‐age violence during the Easter weekend. […] The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accesories^[sic].
(informal) Clipping of modification.
(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
Coordinate terms: add-on, DLC, expansion pack
- 2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture‎^[2], Random House, →ISBN:
  Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.
(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
- 2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 October 2019:
  The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.
1. (Internet slang, originally Twitch-speak, humorous, in the plural) Used to express a wish of removal or, often hyperbolic, harm (as opposed to a literal request to moderators).
  Mods, kill this guy with hammers.
(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- 1992, Jordan K. Hubbard, “How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?”, in comp.sys.acorn (Usenet):
  I'd like to convert some of the arch^[sic] mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.
- 2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff; Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture, page 38:
  These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.
(climbing) A moderately difficult route.
(in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
- 1891 November, S. E. Winbolt, “The Schools at Oxford”, in The Atlantic‎^[4], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 October 2022:
  It will thus be seen that, however well a boy may have been trained at school, his time may be amply occupied in preparing for Mods. during his first year and a half of residence at Oxford.
(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.
Synonyms: (programming) %, modulus
(statistics) Abbreviation of mode.
(politics) Abbreviation of moderate.
- 2009 April 29, Marc Ambinder, “Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently”, in The Atlantic‎^[5], archived from the original on 10 May 2021, retrieved 25 March 2024:
  Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently [title]

Usage notes

In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack, or DLC.

Derived terms

Translations

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game

Chinese:
Mandarin: 模組 / 模组 (zh) (mózǔ), mod (zh)
French: mod (fr) m
German: Mod (de) m or f
Indonesian: oprekan, koprekan, modif
Italian: mod (it) f
Polish: mod (pl) m
Portuguese: modificação (pt) f, modificador (pt) m, mod m
Russian: мод (ru) m (mod), модифика́ция (ru) f (modifikácija)
Spanish: modificación (es) f
Swedish: mod (sv) c
Tagalog: mod (tl)
Ukrainian: мод m (mod)

a 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker

Spanish: mod m or f

Verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

(transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
Synonyms: trick, trick out

His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
(video games) To install or create a mod.
Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

I used to mod that forum.

Derived terms

Adjective

mod (not comparable)

Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Scottish Gaelic mòdbor.

English mod

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic mòd.

Noun

mod (plural mods)

A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

Etymology 3

Probably reflecting a Jamaican pronunciation of mad.

Adjective

mod (comparative modder, superlative moddest)

(MTE, slang) Crazy, insane.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane

Have you listened to Kendrick's new album? It's absolutely mod!
- 2022 November 28, @187Caution, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
  now mans have to beat uruguay to advance, dec 2nd gonna be the moddest day revenge for 2010
- 2023 March 10, “original trapstar, caught a leg shot and still took it OT til death”, in Reddit‎^[7], r/Torontology, archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
  What he did was actually mod. Man fuck cancer for real
- 2024 March 27, “Whyg with a tweet about Zombie (Lane)”, in Reddit‎^[8], r/Torontology, archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
  Ngl this one of the moddest tweets 😭😭
- 2024 May 7, @leavem3al0ne90, Twitter‎^[9], archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
  Why would Drake orchestrate a shooting and blame it on someone not in this country? Are you mod?? Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.

Anagrams

-dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmoˀð], [ˈmoðˀ]
Rhymes: -oð

Etymology 1

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, cognate with English mood, German Mut.

Noun

mod n (singular definite modet, not used in plural form)

courage
mood

Usage notes

The sense "mood" is obsolete outside of compounds and a few fixed phrases.

Declension

Declension of *mod*
neuter gender	singular
neuter gender	indefinite	definite
nominative	mod	modet
genitive	mods	modets

Synonyms

(formal) courage, kurage c
tapperhed c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse í mót, i.e. the preposition í (“in”) + the noun mót (“meeting”) (compare i møde), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, cognate with English moot.

Preposition

mod or imod

toward, towards; to (physical motion, direction)
Dette tog kører mod Vanløse.
This train goes towards Vanløse.

Peg mod det sted, hvor lyden kommer fra.
Point towards the place the sound is coming from.
toward, towards; to (physical orientation, facing)
Hun stillede sig med ansigtet mod havet.
She stood facing [or with her face towards] the sea.

Værelset vender ud mod gaden.
The room faces (toward(s)) the street.
toward, towards; to (temporal motion)
Han er godt på vej mod de 40 år.
He's well on his way towards 40 years old.
toward, towards (near in time)
mod slutningen af aftenen ― toward(s) the end of the evening
toward, towards; to (as a goal)
De sigter mod at skabe 10.000 nye job.
They're aiming to create [or toward(s) creating] 10,000 new jobs.
almost, nearly, close to (in terms of quantity)
Aktiekursen faldt med hen mod 20 procent.
The share price fell by close to 20 percent.
against; into (in the opposite physical direction of)
Antonym: med

Man må nogle gange svømme mod strømmen.
One must sometimes swim against the current.

Intet sejlskib kan sejle lige mod vinden.
No sailing ship can sail directly against [or into] the wind.
against; to (in physical contact with)
Han lagde øret mod døren og lyttede.
He put his ear against [or to] the door and listened.
against, into, with (forceful collision)
Bilen kørte mod muren.
The car crashed into [or against] the wall.

Skibet støder mod isbjerget.
The ship collided with [or against] the iceberg.
against, versus; on (having as an opponent)
USA har aldrig formelt erklæret krig mod Irak.
The US never formally declared war against [or on] Iraq.

Gårsdagens tenniskamp var Federer mod Nadal.
Yesterday's tennis match was Federer versus Nadal.
against (in constrast to; inconsistent with; contradicting)
mod reglerne ― against the rules

mod sin vilje ― against one's will
at; toward, towards; against (a recipient or target)
Hans vrede var rettet mod præsidenten.
His anger was directed at [or against or toward(s)] the president.

Bogserien sigter mod unge voksne.
The book series is aimed at [or toward(s)] young adults.
to; toward, towards; with (as an attitude or behavior)
Synonyms: over for, overfor, ved

Hun har altid været venlig mod mig.
She has always been friendly to(ward(s)) me.

I dag var han meget utålmodig mod mig.
Today he was very impatient with me.
against (refuting or implicating)
beviser mod sagsøgte ― evidence against the defendant
to (a victim)
Hvordan kunne du gøre sådan en forfærdelig ting mod mig?
How could you do such a horrible thing to me?
from; against (protection, precaution)
at skærme sig mod vinden ― to shield oneself from [or against] the wind

et værn for at beskytte mod onde ånder ― a ward to protect from [or against] evil spirits
for (e.g., as a treatment, cure, or prophylaxis)
Han tog piller mod smerterne.
He took pills for the pain.
to; against (comparison)
Slutresultatet blev 33 mod 17.
The final score was 33 to 17.

Fordele og ulemper skal vejes op mod hinanden.
Advantages and disadvantages must be weighed against each other.
in return for; in exchange for; as compensation for
Hvad ville du gerne have mod din hjælp?
What would you like in return for your help?
against (as foreground re: a background)
i silhuet mod himlen ― silhouetted against the sky

Usage notes

The two forms, mod and imod, are interchangeable when used as a preposition. In the contemporary language, the shorter form is used about 10 times as much as the longer one. As an adverb, only the longer form is used.

Italian

Alternative forms

mod. (rare, with plural modd.)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mod.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɔd/
Rhymes: -ɔd
Hyphenation: mòd

Noun

mod (plural mod)

abbreviation of moderatore (masculine gender) or abbreviation of moderatrice (feminine gender): a server or Internet forum moderator
Synonym: admin
abbreviation of modificazione: a video-game mod

Related terms

moderare
moddare (“to create or to mount a mod”)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian modu and/or Italian modo, from Latin modus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɔːt/
Audio (Gozo): (file)
Rhymes: -ɔːt

Noun

mod m (plural modi or modijiet)

way, manner
Synonyms: għamla, manjiera

Derived terms

bil-mod

Middle English

Noun

mod

alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

(pre-2012) alternative form of mot

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (ge)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι (môthai) and Latin mōs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /moːd/
Rhymes: -oːd

Noun

mōd n

mind
- Adrian and Ritheus
  Mannes mōd biþ on þām hēafde and gǣþ ūt þurh þone mūþ.
  A person's mind is in the head and goes out through the mouth.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
  Se feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu.
  The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?
  If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?
Synonym: hyġe
heart, spirit
state of mind, mood
- The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre
  Đā ġewearþ hit þæt þǣs mǣdenes fōstormōdor intō þām būre ēode, ⁊ ġesēah hī ðār sittan on miċelre ġedrefednesse, ⁊ hire cwæð tō, "Hwiġ eart þū hlæfdiġe swā ġedrefedes mōdes?"
  It happened that the girl's foster mother came into the room and saw her sitting full of confusion, and said to her "Lady, why are you so troubled of mind?."
(in poetry and compounds) courage, pride, zeal, or anger
affection
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
  Uton lufian ure gebroðra on Godes gelaðunge mid swilcum mōde swa swa ðes cyðere þa lufode his fynd.
  Let us love our brothers in God's church with such affection as that with which this martyr loved his foes.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mōd	mōd
accusative	mōd	mōd
genitive	mōdes	mōda
dative	mōde	mōdum

Derived terms

-mōd (“-minded”)
mōdlēas (“mindless”)
mōdsēoc (“mentally ill”)
on mōd berinnan (of a thought or idea, “to occur”)

Descendants

Middle English: mod, mode, mood
- English: mood
- Scots: mude, muid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mode.

Noun

mod n (plural moduri)

mode, fashion, style, way
(grammar) mode, mood

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mȏd m inan (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)

(statistics) mode

Declension

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Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mȏd m anim (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)

(sociology) mod (member of a 1960's subculture)

Declension

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Slovene

Noun

mod

genitive dual/plural of modo

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmod/ [ˈmoð̞]
Rhymes: -od
Syllabification: mod

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mod, from modern.

Adjective

mod (invariable)

mod (of the 1960s modern style)

Noun

mod m (plural mods)

mod (1960s modern style)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

Noun

mod m (plural mods)

mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game)

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

mod

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology 1

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muːd/
Audio: (file)

Noun

mod n

courage
Hypernym: kardinaldygd
- 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Fotnot till Salomos vishet 8:7 [Footnote to Wisdom 8:7]”, in Bibel 2000‎^[10], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:
  måttfullhet och klokhet, rättrådighet och mod. Enligt grekisk filosofi människans förnämsta positiva egenskaper, "de fyra kardinaldygderna".
  temperance and prudence, justice and courage. According to Greek philosophy, man's most positive traits, "the four cardinal virtues".
(in some expressions and as a component of many words) (often positive) state of mind
Han kände sig illa till mods
He felt uncomfortable (uneasy, ill at ease)

Declension

Declension of **mod**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mod	mods
singular	definite	modet	modets
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɔd/

Noun

mod n

(video games) mod (end user-created modifications)
(Internet) a mod (moderator)
Synonym: moderator

Declension

Declension of **mod**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mod	mods
singular	definite	modden	moddens
plural	indefinite	moddar	moddars
plural	definite	moddarna	moddarnas

References

“mod”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
mod in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

-dom, Dom., dom, dom-

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmod/ [ˈmod̪̚]
Rhymes: -od
Syllabification: mod

Noun

mod (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behavior of a video game)

Turkish

Noun

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

mode
(colloquial) mood
Synonym: hâletiruhiye

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

Noun

mod

face

Inflection

Inflection of mod (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	mod
genitive sing.	modon
partitive sing.	modod
partitive plur.	modoid
	singular	plural
nominative	mod	modod
accusative	modon	modod
genitive	modon	modoiden
partitive	modod	modoid
essive-instructive	modon	modoin
translative	modoks	modoikš

inessive	modos	modoiš
elative	modospäi	modoišpäi
illative	modoho	modoihe

adessive	modol	modoil
ablative	modolpäi	modoilpäi
allative	modole	modoile

abessive	modota	modoita
comitative	modonke	modoidenke
prolative	mododme	modoidme

approximative I	modonno	modoidenno
approximative II	modonnoks	modoidennoks
egressive	modonnopäi	modoidennopäi

terminative I	modohosai	modoihesai
terminative II	modolesai	modoilesai
terminative III	modossai	—

additive I	modohopäi	modoihepäi
additive II	modolepäi	modoilepäi

Derived terms

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лицо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[11], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /moːd/

Verb

mod

nasal mutation of bod

Mutation

Mutated forms of *bod*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bod	fod	mod	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

Etymology 2

Symbol

See also

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Adjective

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Adjective

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Usage notes

Declension

Synonyms

See also

Etymology 2

Preposition

Usage notes

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Maltese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Old English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

Slovene

Noun

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms