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nowaday

nowaday adjective: existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary. Also the alternative form of nowadays.

Adjective

nowaday (not comparable)

  1. Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
    • Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear.1984, David Farrelly, The book of bamboo, page 83
    • The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow.2005, Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub, Yankl Salant, Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets
    Synonyms:
    current, present

Noun

nowaday

  1. (rare) The present period; contemporary times.
    • If so, it should be noted that ουντυγχάνω does not exist in nowaday's South Italian, and, probably, did not either in medieval South Italian (though it is not excluded, of course, because during the presence of the Byzantines in (Southern) Italy a greater influence of the Byzantine koine of that...1987, W.J.Aerts, “Appendix: The Latin-Greek Wordlist in MS 236 of the Municipal Library of Avranches, FOL. 97v”, in Reginald Allen Brown, editor, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986, Boydell &...
    • When I think back over the one hundred years that the Stevensons lived there, the things we had to deal with and use, would give these safety people of nowaday a blood hemorrhage.1995, Cynthia Mills Coté, Amazing grace: the story of some Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the Stevensons, Flemings, and others, who migrated from North Carolina to Missouri in 1819, page 120

Also used as

nowaday is also the alternative form of nowadays.

Examples of nowaday in a sentence

  • Or that these (shall we go ahead and call both outcomes issues) would be the nowaday worries, with no time out?2007, James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey, page 306:
  • “He said the true Gypsies—not to be mixed up with the nowaday Tinkers—were very people intuitive. […]”2009, John B. Olson, Powers, page 260:
  • Sometimes Heke was living in the nowaday, sometimes he was with Rudy and Royl, his mother and father, who had both passed years back, and with his sister Narcissa in the long ago.2008, Edra Ziesk, The Trespasser, page 25:

Synonyms of nowaday

Questions about nowaday

What does nowaday mean?
Nowaday means existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
How do you use nowaday in a sentence?
Or that these (shall we go ahead and call both outcomes issues) would be the nowaday worries, with no time out?
What part of speech is nowaday?
Nowaday can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nowaday in the dictionary

  1. nowackiite
  2. Nowackis
  3. Nowacks
  4. Nowaczyk
  5. Nowaczyks
  6. nowaday
  7. nowadayes
  8. nowadays
  9. Nowak
  10. nowakiid
  11. Nowakowski

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