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now-a-days

now-a-days adjective: of the present day, contemporary. Also the alternative spelling of nowadays.

Adjective

now-a-days (not comparable)

  1. Of the present day, contemporary.
    • One sweeping censure, in passing, on our now-a-days style of conversation.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 169

Also used as

now-a-days is also the alternative spelling of nowadays.

Questions about now-a-days

What does now-a-days mean?
Now-a-days means of the present day, contemporary.
What part of speech is now-a-days?
Now-a-days is an adjective.

Words near now-a-days in the dictionary

  1. now you tell me
  2. now you're cooking
  3. now you're talking
  4. now, more than ever
  5. now, now
  6. now-a-days
  7. now-adays
  8. now-now
  9. now-nowism
  10. now-or-never
  11. Nowa Nowa

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