Nowadays
['naʊədeɪz] or ['naʊədez]
Definition
(adv.) in these times; 'it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished'- Nancy Mitford; 'we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets'; 'today almost every home has television'.
Typed by Elbert--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In these days; at the present time.
Checker: Scott
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. In these days, in this age, in the present age.
Editor: Val
Examples
- Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no such ladies nowadays. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Still I don't know much what feelings are nowadays. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It might be all a lie, he acknowledged; but so many fine ladies were going to the devil nowadays that way, that there was no answering for anybody. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Moreover, we know nowadays that even a universal education of this sort supplies only the basis for a healthy republican state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Morals don't sell nowadays. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We are all socialists nowadays, said Sir William Harcourt years ago, and that is loosely true to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There's a hole in thy poor bellows nowadays seemingly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But through some of the prophecies there runs already a note like the note of what we call nowadays a social reformer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is difficult to believe nowadays that the order of nature indulged in any such meaningless comments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It will do me good, and my old bones won't suffer, for traveling nowadays is almost as easy as sitting in a chair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There's no spirit nowadays. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And our flowers are of this--our sea-born Aphrodite, all our white phosphorescent flowers of sensuous perfection, all our reality, nowadays. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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