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these days en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Currently, at present.
    • However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs. 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
    • Near-synonyms: now, lately, recently
    • I don’t play snooker a lot these days.
    • These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

Deriveds

is that what the kids are calling it these days? · one of these days

Relateds

latter-day · recent memory · latterday

Synonyms

lately · now · recently · nowadays

Translations (44)

cmn 目今 (currently) · fr de nos jours (currently) · es estos días (currently) · nb(currently) · nb nå for tiden (currently) · de heutzutage (currently) · id akhir-akhir ini (currently) · ru в э́ти дни́ (currently) · ko 요즈음 (currently) · pt hoje em dia (currently) · cmn 如今 (currently) · el επί των ημερών μας (currently) · ja このごろ (currently) · lad endiya (currently) · cmn 近日 (currently) · ang on þissum dagum (currently) · sk dnes (currently) · ko 요즘 (currently) · az son zamanlar (currently) · fi nykyään (currently) · it oggidì (currently) · fr ces jours-ci (currently) · vi ngày nay (currently) · ja 今時 (currently) · bg тези дни (currently) · nb for tiden (currently) · ja 最近 (currently) · fa امروزه (currently) · id barusan ini (currently) · gd an latha an-diugh (currently) · cmn 現在 /现在 (currently) · cs poslední dobou (currently) · nb om dagen (currently) · ja 近ごろ (currently) · nb nå om dagen (currently) · ja 年頃日頃 (currently) · eo nuntempe (currently) · yi הײַנטצוטאָג (currently) · it in questi giorni (currently) · el στις μέρες μας (currently) · sw siku hizi (currently) · ru в после́днее вре́мя (currently) · mr आजकाल (currently) · cmn 目前 (currently)