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Definition of "present-day" []

  • Now in existence or progress; current: present-day attitudes about the family. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "present-day" in a sentence
  • "Not an angle as in one of the three composing a triangle, but Angle as in the Angles, who migrated from their tribal territory, Angeln, in an area overlapping present-day Denmark and Germany, to Britain."
  • "This region, called the Pontic Steppe, included part of present-day Ukraine, a portion of southwestern Russia, and a piece of Kazakhstan."
  • "While "The Buried Mirror" focuses on the relationship between Spain and Mexico, it serves to inform present-day Mexico."