nowadays
UK/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
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Northumbria/ˈnuː.ə.deɪz/
nowadays adverb: at the present time; in the current era.
Adverb
nowadays (not comparable)
- At the present time; in the current era.
- Cars nowadays are more efficient.
- 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.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...
- Synonyms:
- currently, in this day and age, now, these days, today
nowadays meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
nowadays in Hindi
- at the present time; in the current era
- आज कल āj kal
nowadays in Tamil
- தற்காலத்தில்
nowadays in Marathi
- at the present time; in the current era
- आजकाल ājkāl
nowadays in Urdu
- at the present time; in the current era
- آج کل āj kal
More languagesFewer languages
- nowadays in Bengali
- আইজকাইল aizkail
- nowadays in Malayalam
- ഈയിടെ, ഇന്ന്, അടുത്തകാലങ്ങളിൽ, ഇയ്യിടെ
- nowadays in Kannada
- ಇಂದು, ಈಗೀಗ, ಈಗಿನ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ, ಸದ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ
- nowadays in Punjabi
- ਅੱਜਕੱਲ ajjakalla, ਅੱਜ ਕੱਲ ajja kalla, ਅੱਜ ਕੱਲ੍ਹ ajja kallh, اَجّ کَلّ ajj kall
- nowadays in Sanskrit
- अद्य adya
- nowadays in Assamese
- আজিকালি azikali
- nowadays in Nepali
- आज कल āj kal
- nowadays in Indonesian
- sekarang ini, saat ini, sekarang, pada masa kini
- nowadays in Persian
- امروزه emruze
- nowadays in Vietnamese
- ngày nay, đời nay, dạo này, hiện nay
- nowadays in Myanmar
- ယခုအချိန်တွင် ya.hku.a.hkyintwang
Examples of nowadays in a sentence
- 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.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal...
- 'Cause everybody's happy nowadays / Everybody's happy nowadays1979, “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”, performed by Buzzcocks:
- My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.2012 June 11, Dick Vinegar, “What makes doctors tick?”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of nowadays
Forms of nowadays
| alternative form | nowaday |
|---|---|
| alternative form | now-a-days |
| alternative form | now a days |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | nowdays |
| alternative Singapore | nowsaday |
| alternative form (obsolete) | nowadayes |
| alternative form (archaic) | now-adays |
Origin of nowadays
From now + adays.
Questions about nowadays
- What does nowadays mean?
- Nowadays means at the present time; in the current era.
- What is nowadays in Hindi?
- Nowadays in Hindi is आज कल (āj kal). See Nowadays meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use nowadays in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is nowadays?
- Nowadays is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce nowadays?
- Nowadays is pronounced /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ (UK).
Words near nowadays in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nowadays (page history and authors); nowadays (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আইজকাইল (Bengali) (page history and authors); nowadays (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nowadays (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आज कल (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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