Meanings
- not comparableCurrently, at present.
Near-synonyms: now, lately, recently
4 more examples
These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.
I don’t play snooker a lot these days.
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 14An 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)
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
Bulgarian тези дни
- тези дни (tezi dni)currently
Chinese Mandarin 如今, 近日
- 如今 (rújīn)currently
- 近日 (jìnrì)currently
- 現在 /现在 (xiànzài)currently
- 目前 (mùqián)currently
- 目今 (mùjīn)currently
Czech poslední dobou
- poslední doboucurrently
Esperanto nuntempe
- nuntempecurrently
Finnish nykyään
- nykyääncurrently
French ces jours-ci, de nos jours
- ces jours-cicurrently
- de nos jourscurrently
German heutzutage
- heutzutagecurrently
Greek στις μέρες μας, επί των ημερών μας
- στις μέρες μας (stis méres mas)currently
- επί των ημερών μας (epí ton imerón mas)currently
Indonesian akhir-akhir ini, barusan ini
- akhir-akhir inicurrently
- barusan inicurrently
Italian oggidì, in questi giorni
- oggidìcurrently
- in questi giornicurrently
Japanese 今時, 年頃日頃
- 今時 (imadoki)currently
- 年頃日頃 (toshigorohigoro)currently
- このごろ (konogoro)currently
- 近ごろ (chikagoro)currently
- 最近 (saikin)currently
Korean 요즈음, 요즘
- 요즈음 (yojeueum)currently
- 요즘 (yojeum)currently
Norwegian Bokmål for tiden, nå for tiden
- for tidencurrently
- nå for tidencurrently
- nåcurrently
- om dagencurrently
- nå om dagencurrently
Persian امروزه, این روزها
- امروزه (emruze)currently
- این روزها (īn rūzhā)currently
Portuguese hoje em dia
- hoje em diacurrently
Russian в после́днее вре́мя, в э́ти дни́
- в после́днее вре́мя (v poslédneje vrémja)currently
- в э́ти дни́ (v éti dní)currently
Scottish Gaelic an latha an-diugh
- an latha an-diughcurrently
Slovak dnes
- dnescurrently
Spanish estos días
- estos díascurrently
Swahili siku hizi
- siku hizicurrently
Vietnamese ngày nay
- ngày naycurrently
Yiddish הײַנטצוטאָג
- הײַנטצוטאָג (haynttsutog)currently
Cite this entry
these days. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/these%20days
“these days.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/these%20days. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “these days,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/these%20days.
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