nowadays
Noun · AdverbUS[nou-uh-deyz]/ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech“that is enough for the present”“he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow”Synonyms: presentType of timeKinds today, now, here and now, tonight, date, time being
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Translations
Adverb at the present time
- Spanish
- hoy en día
- French
- de nos jours
- German
- heutzutage
- Italian
- oggigiorno
- Portuguese
- hoje em dia
- Turkish
- günümüzde
- Russian
- тепе́рь tepérʹ
- Chinese
- 现在 xiànzài
- Japanese
- 現在 genzai
- Dutch
- heden ten dage
17 more languages
- Polish
- teraz
- Swedish
- nu för tiden
- Indonesian
- sekarang
- Vietnamese
- ngày nay
- Hungarian
- manapság
- Portuguese (PT)
- hoje em dia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 現在 xiànzài
- Catalan
- avui dia
- Esperanto
- hodiaŭe
- Finnish
- nykyisin
- Georgian
- ამჟამად amžamad
- Hebrew
- כיום kayóm
- Lithuanian
- dabar
- Romanian
- în ziua de azi
- Scottish Gaelic
- an latha an-diugh
- Slovak
- dnes
- Slovenian
- danes
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Now′a·days′ (nou′ȧ-dāz′), adverb
Origin: For now on (OE. an) days. See A-, 1.
In these days; at the present time.
What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays?— David Garrick
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54