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modern-day

modern-day adjective: current; of the present.

Adjective

modern-day (not comparable)

  1. Current; of the present.
    • Modern-day Greek is a lot different from ancient Greek, or koine.
    • Of course, modern-day theories debunk that idea.
  2. (informal) Used to designate 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!
    • 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.2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian

Examples of modern-day in a sentence

  • And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13:
  • The Yongping garrison was located between Siming prefecture and Môn Châu, or modern-day Na Cham.2007, James Anderson, “Notes”, in The Rebel Den of Nùng Trí Cao: Loyalty and Identity Along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier, University of...

Questions about modern-day

What does modern-day mean?
Modern-day means current; of the present.
How do you use modern-day in a sentence?
And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
What part of speech is modern-day?
Modern-day is an adjective.

Words near modern-day in the dictionary

  1. modern synthesis
  2. modern times
  3. Modern Tupí
  4. Modern Turkish
  5. modern up
  6. modern-day
  7. moderne
  8. moderned up
  9. moderner
  10. moderners
  11. modernest

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