present-day

English

Adjective

present-day(notcomparable)

1. Inexistencenow;currentorcontemporary.
   • 1936,Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art,London: Long, page19:

     Antlers and horns have been the insignia of devils and black magicians from time immemorial, and are worn bypresent-daywitch doctors.

   • 1960February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated,page110:

     As for the present diesel main line units of 2,000 to 2,300 h.p. on the London Midland and Western Regions, they can offer little more than the maintenance ofpresent-dayschedules - well below modern European speed standards - [...].

   • 1963April, “Chepstow Bridge is rebuilt”, inModern Railways,page 265, photo caption:

     The new bridge (6) gives headroom of 13ft at high tide, sufficient forpresent-dayriver traffic.

   • 1973[1962],Mark Elvin,quoting Tanigawa Michio, “Sino-barbarian synthesis in north China”, inThe Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation‎^[1],Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page46‎^[2]:

     Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [inpresent-dayShensi province].

   • 1989,Che Muqi [Xa mộ kỳ], “Places of Historic Interest, Scenic Beauty, and Revolutionary Relics”, inTi trù chi lộ kim tích[The Silk Road, Past and Present]‎^[3],Beijing:Foreign Languages Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page62:

     The ancient Kingdom of Ruoqiang controlled the rest ofpresent-dayRuoqiang County, while today’s Qiemo (Qarqan) County was the territory of the ancient State of Qiemo, and the ancient walled city of Washixia inpresent-dayRuoqiang County was possibly its capital.

Synonyms

• modern;see alsoThesaurus:present

Translations

in existence now

• Azerbaijani:bugünkü
• Bulgarian:съвременен(bg)(sǎvremenen)
• Dutch:vandaag de dag
• Esperanto:^{(pleaseverify)}aktuala
• Finnish:nykypäivän,nykyajan,tämän päivän
• Japanese:Hiện đại(ja)(gendai)
• Russian:в на́ши дни(v náši dni)
• Spanish:actual(es),hodierno(formal)
• Swedish:dagens(sv)
• Turkish:günümüz…-i