Announcements. 1  The Walker County Board of Education will hold a public forum on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at the Advancing Education Center, 925 Osburn Road, Chickamauga, GA, for the purpose of discussing the Walker County School Districtâs Strategic Waiver/IE2 Application.
modern-day - characteristic of the present; contemporary trends in design; the role of computers in modern-day medicine. contemporary. modern - belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; modern art; modern furniture; modern history; totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric. adjective present-day, modern, contemporary the by-products of modern-day living.
Usage: Since contemporary can mean either `of the same period' or `of the present period', it is best to avoid it where ambiguity might arise, as in a production of Othello in contemporary dress. A synonym such as modern or present-day would clarify if the first sense were being used, while a specific term, such as Elizabethan, would be appropriate for the second sense.