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nowadays

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz//
  • //ˈnuː.ə.deɪz//

At the present time; in the current era.

adverb

  1. 1

    At the present time; in the current era.

    Cars nowadays are more efficient.

    Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.

    What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?

    The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.

Etymology

From now + adays.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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