The phrase "present meaning" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the current or current-day definition or interpretation of a word, phrase, or idea. Example: "The word 'queer' has evolved in its present meaning to encompass a broader spectrum of gender and sexuality than it did in the past."
Tells the origin of the word "lobbyist", and when it acquired its present meaning here.
Often its present meaning bears little relationship to its original one.
The word probability in its present meaning wasn't even coined until the 1600's.
"Flapper" is an old word; it was used with pretty much its present meaning as early as the seventeenth century.
Pictorial art may be symbolically interpreted or its present meaning may be reinforced by the addition of a verbal explanation or possibly even by music.
He won a share of Venice's Golden Lion (with Altman's forthcoming Short Cuts) for Three Colours Blue, the first of a new trilogy exploring the present meaning of the French Revolution's liberty, equality and fraternity.
In oral societies, Crain writes, "words have their present meanings but no older ones.
Words have their present meanings but no older ones, and if the past seems to tell a story with values different from current ones, it is either forgotten or silently adjusted.
Whether patent or latent, these contemporary acts of fictional revision contribute to our understanding of the continuing post-9/11 moment while reshaping the present meanings of our literary and historical past.
Whether patent or latent, these contemporary acts of fictional revision contribute to our understanding of tour continuing post-9/11 moment while reshaping the present meanings of our literary and historical past.
When it was still flying at full staff at the State House (as it did every day, by law) the day after the murders, the truth that its past and present meanings were not so distant from each other became clearer, too.
