modern-day
English
Adjective
modern-day (not comparable)
- Current; of the present.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13:
- And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
- Modern-day Greek is a lot different from ancient Greek, or koine.
- Of course, modern-day theories debunk that idea.
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- (informal) Designating a present-day version of someone or something in history.
- That couple led police on a wild goose chase like a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde!
- 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
- Lambert had been on the pitch only three minutes when he rose, in the style of a modern-day Nat Lofthouse, to score with the arching, powerful header that completely changed the emphasis on a night when Roy Hodgson's team had, at times, exhausted the patience of their home crowd.
Translations
current
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generally accepted
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