See also: now-a-days, now-adays, and now a days
Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Adverb
- 1.4.1 Synonyms
- 1.4.2 Translations
English
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Alternative forms
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- nowaday
- nowadayes (obsolete)
- now-a-days
- now-adays (archaic)
- now a days
- nowdays (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Adverb
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nowadays (not comparable)
- At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
Cars nowadays are more efficient.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 2:
Me-thinkes 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, “Cowardize, the Mother of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes[…], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount[…], →OCLC, page 399:
What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?
1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the Description of Germany”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World;[…], volumes IV (Containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar[…], →OCLC, § 4, page 4:
The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm[…], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50:
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 June 11, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian:
My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
Synonyms
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- (at the present time): currently, in this day and age, now, these days, today
Translations
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at the present time
- Assamese: আজিকালি (azikali)
- Basque: gaur egun(eu)
- Bulgarian: сега(bg) (sega), понастоящем(bg) (ponastojaštem)
- Burmese: ယခုအချိန်တွင် (ya.hku.a.hkyintwang)
- Catalan: actualment(ca), avui dia
- Chinese:
- Danish: nu om stunder(da)
- Dutch: heden(nl), momenteel(nl), nu(nl)
- Finnish: nykyisin(fi), nykyään(fi)
- French: actuellement(fr), de nos jours(fr), aujourd’hui(fr), présentement(fr) (Canada)
- Galician: hoxe en día(gl), actualmente
- Georgian: დღესდღეობით (dɣesdɣeobit), ამჟამად (amžamad)
- German: gegenwärtig(de), zur Zeit(de), derzeitig(de), jetzt(de), zurzeit(de), momentan(de)
- Hindi: आज कल (āj kal)
- Hungarian: mostanában(hu), manapság(hu), napjainkban(hu)
- Indonesian: sekarang ini, saat ini
- Italian: oggidì(it), oggigiorno(it)
- Japanese: 現在(ja) (げんざい, genzai)
- Korean: 요즘(ko) (yojeum)
- Marathi: आजकाल (ājkāl)
- Navajo: dííshjį́
- Persian: امروزه(fa) (emruze)
- Polish: teraz(pl), obecnie(pl)
- Portuguese: hoje em dia(pt), atualmente(pt), hoje(pt), agora(pt)
- Punjabi:
- Russian: в на́ше вре́мя (v náše vrémja), тепе́рь(ru) (tepérʹ), в на́ши дни (v náši dni), сего́дня(ru) (sevódnja) (read: sevódnja)
- Sanskrit: अद्य(sa) (adya)
- Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh
- Slovak: dnes(sk)
- Spanish: actualmente(es), ahora(es)
- Swedish: numera(sv), nu för tiden(sv), numer(sv)
- Ukrainian: тепе́р(uk) (tepér), ни́ні (nýni)
- Urdu: آج کل(ur) (āj kal)
- Vietnamese: ngày nay(vi), đời nay, dạo này, hiện nay(vi)
- West Frisian: hjoed de dei, hjoeddeis
in the current era
- Bulgarian: в наши дни (v naši dni)
- Catalan: avui dia, avui en dia
- Chinese:
- Danish: nu til dags(da), nu om stunder(da)
- Dutch: heden ten dage(nl), tegenwoordig(nl), (please verify) vandaag de dag, (please verify) dezer dagen
- Esperanto: hodiaŭe
- Finnish: nykyisin(fi), nykyään(fi), nykyaikana
- French: de nos jours(fr)
- Galician: hoxe en día(gl), actualmente
- German: heutzutage(de), heute(de)
- Alemannic German: hütigs Tags
- Greek: στις μέρες μας (stis méres mas), επί των ημερών μας (epí ton imerón mas) (learned)
- Hebrew: כיום (kayóm)
- Hindi: आज कल (āj kal)
- Hungarian: manapság(hu), napjainkban(hu)
- Indonesian: sekarang(id), saat ini, pada masa kini
- Italian: oggidì(it), oggigiorno(it)
- Japanese: 現在(ja) (げんざい, genzai), 現代では (gendai de wa), 現代においては (gendai ni oite wa)
- Luxembourgish: hautdesdaags
- Marathi: आजकाल (ājkāl)
- Old English: on þissum dagum
- Persian: امروزه(fa) (emruze)
- Polish: współcześnie(pl)
- Portuguese: hoje em dia(pt), atualmente(pt), hoje(pt), agora(pt)
- Punjabi:
- Romanian: în ziua de azi, în ziua de astăzi
- Russian: в на́ши дни (v náši dni), в на́ше вре́мя (v náše vrémja), тепе́рь(ru) (tepérʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh
- Slovak: dnes(sk)
- Slovene: dándánes
- Spanish: hoy en día, hoy día(es), hogaño(es)
- Swahili: siku hizi
- Swedish: nu för tiden(sv)
- Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠎ-ꠇꠣꠁꠟ (aiz-xail), ꠀꠁꠎꠇꠣꠁꠟ (aizoxail)
- Urdu: آج کل(ur) (āj kal)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout §Translations.
Translations to be checked: "formerly in a combined sense"
- Esperanto: (please verify) nune
- Estonian: (please verify) tänapäeval, (please verify) kaasajal, (please verify) nüüdisajal
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: (please verify) لەم ڕۆژانەدا (lem rojaneda)
- Norwegian: (please verify) nå til dags
- Norwegian Nynorsk: (please verify) no til dags
- Sindhi: (please verify) اڄڪلهه (ajjukalha)
- Swedish: (please verify) nuförtiden(sv)
- Võro: (please verify) seo ilma aigo
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