Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb During the present time; now.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In these days; in the present age: sometimes used as a noun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In these days; at the present time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in these times
- noun the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even to evoke the term nowadays sounds, to many, a little dated, like referring to your wife as your "lady" or to a band as a "group."
NYT > Global Home By ALEX WILLIAMS 2012
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JAVIER ROMERO, RADIO SHOW HOST: If you want to go global, as they use the term nowadays, you better know English.
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"Yes, but not exactly as we commonly regard the term nowadays," smiled
Oh, Money! Money! 1894
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The term nowadays is accepted among some groups of young Italian-Americans as merely being a style of living and dress.
Yale Daily News - Latest Issue Austin Bernhardt 2010
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that's been around as long as the internet - that the label nowadays is an anachronism, and that bands can finance and release music for themselves … Case in point: ...
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