nowadays
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
nowadays (not comparable)
- At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i] ↗:
- Me-thinks miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now adayes.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- What is it that now adaies makes all our quarrels mortall?
- 1762, A. F. Busching, A New System of Geography, volume 4, translated from German, p.4:
- The appellation of Germany, is seldom used now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
- 2012, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2012:
- My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
- (at the present time) currently, now, in this day and age, these days
- French: actuellement, de nos jours, aujourd'hui, présentement (Canada)
- German: gegenwärtig, zur Zeit, derzeitig, jetzt, zurzeit, momentan
- Italian: oggidì, oggigiorno
- Portuguese: hoje em dia, atualmente, hoje, agora
- Russian: в на́ше вре́мя
- Spanish: actualmente
- French: de nos jours
- German: heutzutage, heute
- Italian: oggidì, oggigiorno
- Portuguese: hoje em dia, atualmente, hoje, agora
- Russian: в на́ши дни
- Spanish: hoy en día, hoy día, hogaño
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