Dictionary Definition
nowadays n : 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" [syn: present] adv : in these times;
"it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are
distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn
vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"
[syn: now, today]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈna.ʊə.deɪz/
- /"naU@%deIz/
Adverb
- In these days; at the present time.
- Work that was once done by hands is often done by machine nowadays.
Quotations
- Late 1300’s: — Geoffrey Chaucer : Wit that men have now a days
- 1594 — Shakespeare,
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream v 5
- and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
- Late 1700’s: — David Garrick : What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays?
Translations
- Catalan: avui en dia
- Estonian: tänapäeval, kaasajal, nüüdisajal
- French: de nos jours, actuellement
- Finnish: nykyään, nykyaikana
- German: heute, heutzutage
- Kurdish:
- Old English: núhwílum
- Polish: teraz
- Portuguese: atualmente
- Russian: в наше время (v náše vrémja)
- Sindhi: (ajjukalha)
- Slovak: v súčastnosti, dnes
- Spanish: actualmente, hoy en día
- Vietnamese: ngày nay, hiện nay
- Võro: seo ilma aigo