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Definition of Nowadays

1. Adverb. In these times. "Today almost every home has television"

2. Noun. The period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech. "He lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow"

Definition of Nowadays

1. adv. In these days; at the present time.

Definition of Nowadays

1. Adverb. At the present time; in the current era. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nowadays

1. in these times [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nowadays

now now, now now-a-days now a days now and again now and then now hear this now now now or never now that

now wife now you're cooking now you're talking now you mention it nowackiite nowadays (current term) noway noways nowcast nowcasting

nowcasts nowch nowches nowd nowdays nowds nowed nowel nowell nowells

Literary usage of Nowadays

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1907)
"Few people read a poet nowadays. , They take a course in him. Some one arranges him first into an early, a middle and a later period. ..."

2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1883)
"... which is natural in the first crude stages of experiment and meets us nowadays on every side, the subject is of serious importance to all householders, ..."

3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"Have you noticed how the world will take anything nowadays from a German? Bülow said yesterday in substance—"We . have demanded of China everything we can ..."

4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"D. 'sss. fightings nowadays. 43. The English exiles came first to Frankfort A church at June the 24th, and on the 14th of July following, ..."

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