present-day

American  

[prez-uhnt-dey] / ˈprɛz əntˈdeɪ /

adjective

1. current; modern.

   present-day techniques; present-day English.

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present-day British  

noun

1. (modifier) of the modern day; current

   I don't like present-day fashions

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Etymology

Origin of present-day

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal

But economists often compare the size of economies using present-day dollars because the greenback is the currency of international trade and a measure of actual buying power globally.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had been in Britain since 208, overseeing a series of merciless campaigns into present-day Scotland.

From The Wall Street Journal

"There are things that, when we study them, with our present-day criteria, our values, obviously cannot make us feel proud," Felipe said while visiting an exhibition on indigenous Mexican women in Madrid's National Archaeological Museum.

From BBC

We learn all of this via flashbacks interspersed throughout the present-day trials of Dr. Grace after he wakes up, clueless, on a spaceship extremely far from home.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• contemporary
• modern