English

Alternative forms

• now-a-days
• nowaday

Adverb

nowadays ‎(not comparable)

1. At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:

     to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, nowadayes.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.27:

     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 May, George Orwell, 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.

Synonyms

• (at the present time): currently, now, in this day and age, these days

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