modern-day

English

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.

   • 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.

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!

   • 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: nyky- (fi), nykyinen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: współczesny (pl)

used to designate a present-day version of someone or something in history

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: nykyinen (fi)
• French: des temps modernes
• Polish: współczesny (pl)