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nowadays
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nowadays has 1 sense
- nowadays(n = noun.time) present - 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" is a kind of time
has particulars: now, here and now, moment, present moment, date, nonce, time being, today, tonight
Adverbial nowadays has 1 sense
- nowadays(r = adv.all) now, today - in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"
CIDE DICTIONARY
nowadays, adv. [For now on (OE. an) days. See A-, 1.].
In these days; at the present time. [1913 Webster]
"What men of spirit, nowadays,
Come to give sober judgment of new plays?" [1913 Webster]
Come to give sober judgment of new plays?" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nowadays, adv. & n.
--adv. at the present time or age; in these times.
--n. the present time.
--adv. at the present time or age; in these times.
--n. the present time.
ROGET THESAURUS
nowadays
The Present Time
N the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion, the times, the existing time, the time being, today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century, nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour, age, time of life, present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is, present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment, at this time, at this moment, at the present time, now, at present, at hand, at this time of day, today, nowadays, already, even now, but now, just now, on the present occasion, for the time being, for the nonce, pro hac vice, on the nail, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, until now, to this day, to the present day, the present hour alone is man's, the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion, the times, the existing time, the time being, today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century, nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour, age, time of life, present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is, present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment, at this time, at this moment, at the present time, now, at present, at hand, at this time of day, today, nowadays, already, even now, but now, just now, on the present occasion, for the time being, for the nonce, pro hac vice, on the nail, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, until now, to this day, to the present day, the present hour alone is man's.
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