nowadays
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nowadays (not comparable)
- At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
- 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:
- to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, nowadayes.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.27:
- What is it that now adaies makes all our quarrels mortall?
- 1762, A. F. Busching, A New System of Geography, volume 4, translated from German, p. 4:
- The appellation of Germany, is seldom used now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
- 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6
- 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, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2012:
- My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:
Synonyms [edit]
- (at the present time): currently, now, in this day and age, these days
Translations [edit]
at the present time
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in the current era
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