PRESENT TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does present times mean? 

• PRESENT TIMES (noun)
  The noun PRESENT TIMES has 1 sense:

1. the circumstances and ideas of the present age

  Familiarity information: PRESENT TIMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENT TIMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The circumstances and ideas of the present age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

contemporary world; modern times; modern world; present times

Context example:

in modern times like these

Hypernyms ("present times" is a kind of...):

times (a more or less definite period of time now or previously present)

 Context examples 

I never knew him myself; I only heard of him; but there was a something in his conduct then, with regard to my father and sister, and afterwards in the circumstances of his marriage, which I never could quite reconcile with present times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grating upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examination, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)