Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

these days

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.47 in modern English

Syllables: the-se -days
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Currently, at present.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: now, lately, recently"
"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."
"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."

Phrases

is that what the kids are calling it these days? one of these days latter-day recent memory

Frequently Paired Words

latter-day latterday recent memory

Synonyms

nowadays now lately recently

Questions

What does these days mean?: Currently, at present.

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