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Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.

The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.

A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65) in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial Day is:…

The middle part of the day; noon.

The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.

A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who designated the second Sunday in May, or for schools the second Friday, as…

the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

In these days; at the present time. What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays Garrick.

The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

A day given to play or diversion; a holiday. Swift.

Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross, occuring on May 3 and September 14, annually.

The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.

The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc.

A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.

A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

At that time; then; in those days; -- correlative to nowadays. [R.]

The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday. Holy Thursday. See under Holy.