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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Johann Most

Meaning of "present-day" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRESENT-DAY

present-day play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRESENT-DAY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Present-Day is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRESENT-DAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Present day

The term "present day" is used to describe the approximate period of time that surrounds the present. Depending on the context, this period may be as narrow as referring to the immediate moment, or as broad as referring to the current year or decade. In general the term is used to refer to the contemporary era at the time it is used.

Definition of present-day in the English dictionary

The definition of present-day in the dictionary is of the modern day; current.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRESENT-DAY

present
present arms
present oneself
present participle
present perfect
present tense
present value
presentability
presentable
presentableness
presentably
presentation
presentation box
presentation copy
presentation skills
presentational
presentationism
presentationist
presentative
presentativeness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRESENT-DAY

all-day
D-day
day-to-day
degree-day
five-a-day
half-day
latter-day
long-day
man-day
one-day
play-day
same-day
short-day

Synonyms and antonyms of present-day in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRESENT-DAY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «present-day» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of present-day

Translation of «present-day» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRESENT-DAY

Find out the translation of present-day to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of present-day from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «present-day» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

现今的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

actual
570 millions of speakers

English

present-day
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वर्तमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في الوقت الحاضر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Современная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আজকের দিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

actuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

hari ini
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heutig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現代の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오늘날의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saiki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngày nay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இன்றைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आजचा दिवस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

günümüz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dzisiejsza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Сучасна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de azi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρόν - ημέρες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hedendaagse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nutida
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dagens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of present-day

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESENT-DAY»

The term «present-day» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESENT-DAY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «present-day» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «present-day» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about present-day

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10 QUOTES WITH «PRESENT-DAY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word present-day.
1
George Pierce Baker
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
2
Wilfred Burchett
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
3
Jim C. Hines
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
4
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
5
William Labov
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
6
Johann Most
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
7
Kenzaburo Oe
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
8
Aaron Ruell
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
9
Gustav Stresemann
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
10
Gustav Stresemann
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESENT-DAY»

Discover the use of present-day in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to present-day and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English
The first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English.
Katie Wales, 1996
2
A history of money: from ancient times to the present day
This is a straight-forward, readable account, written with the minimum of jargon, of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different peoples throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day.
Glyn Davies, Julian Hodge Bank, 2002
3
Present Day Truths
Discover how the timeless truths of Scripture can be applied to these current days of turmoil and distress. Study questions follow each chapter, making the text ideal for personal or group study.
Dick Iverson, 2008
4
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-day ...
As he goes from town to town in Ukraine, Bartov describes the landscapes of Jewish life and death: cemeteries, synagogues, schools, killing fields, and neighborhoods. The book is also personal-about his search for his family's past.
Omer Bartov, 2007
5
Present Day Spanish
Chapter. 8. LA. AMERICA. LA. TIM. A. HACE dos siglos el sol no se ponia nunca sobre el imperio espanol. Se hablaba espanol en las Islas Filipinas y en toda la America Latina desde el estrecho de Magallanes hasta la frontera del norte de ...
J. R. Scarr, 1991
6
Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day
"An articulate, exceptionally researched study of Chinese theater." --Choice
Colin Mackerras, 1988
7
Present-day Dialectology: Problems and Findings
Instead, it discusses dialectological topics within the framework of present-day linguistics. The book contains papers which seek to confront recent phonological, morphologic, syntactic and semantic theory with dialectological data.
Johannes Bernardus Berns, Jaap van Marle, 2002
8
Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms
Presenting a comprehensive survey of Irish English at all levels of linguistics, this book will be invaluable to historical linguists, sociolinguists, syntacticians and phonologists alike.
Raymond Hickey, 2007
9
How Christian Is Our Present Day Theology?
This book is a translation of Overbeck's famous text, Ueber die Christlichkeit unserer heutigen Theologie (1873, second edition 1903), together with an introduction and notes.
Franz Overbeck, 2005
10
A Greek Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to ...
This volume presents the rich findings of the Argolid Exploration Project, which has conducted an extensive archaeological investigation of a remote tip of the Peloponnese of Greece whose first human inhabitants arrived over 50,000 years ...
Michael H. Jameson, Curtis Neil Runnels, Tjeerd Hendrik Van Andel, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESENT-DAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term present-day is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ponca Park Present A Unique Gift
The day before, May 11, when the boat was stopped near present-day Springfield, three Ponca Indians came aboard and were given a lift ... «Yankton Daily Press, Jul 15»
2
Scientists discover an early modern human with a recent …
Surprisingly, analyses of present-day genomes have not yielded any evidence that Neanderthals mixed with modern humans in Europe, ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
3
Lewis and Clark Western US expedition revealed in images from …
August 20, 1804 Sergeant Charles Floyd dies of natural causes near present-day Sioux City, Iowa. Early September 1804 The Corps enters the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Which Fallen NBA Point Guard Has Best Shot at Redemption in …
That's a terrible look for a present-day superstar, let alone a player who hasn't sniffed superstardom since Ray Allen was donning Celtics green ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
5
Corporate Pensions Plans Underfunded, Outlook Unclear, PwC Says
Lower interest rates increase the present-day value of future pension obligations. Part of the downturn for pension plans was offset by stock ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
NATO holding rare emergency meeting at Turkey's request
The Kurds are an ethnic group with their own language living in a region spanning present-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. For some ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
7
Once Upon A Time On Divisadero: The Church Of John Coltrane
Present-day residents of the Divisadero corridor may not look twice at 351 Divisadero St. as they walk to or from Vinyl Cafe. J.P. Kempt barber ... «Hoodline, Jul 15»
8
Guinness Gets Experimental With the 'Brewer's Project'
There, a team of brewers is experimenting with new beers, dusting off old Guinness recipes for inspiration while drawing upon present-day ... «Creativity, Jul 15»
9
Quentin Miller - Lies [New Song]
Despite being an old record, the content of the song actually works pretty well give the present-day circumstances. He raps about artists ... «HotNewHipHop, Jul 15»
10
Bombed to hell: a story of Indian bravery in Africa in the Second …
Ghulum Haider was 17, unmarried and from Attock in present-day Pakistan. Gheba Khan was 19 and from Rawalpindi. Bhuja Ram was 25 and ... «Quartz, Jul 15»

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