now

CEFRA1

/naʊ/

adverb · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adverb

    At this time or moment.

  2. 02

    adverb

    Extra detail

    At the present time.

Examples

  • If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

  • Now that the kids have left home we've got a lot of extra space.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /nɒ/
  • /nuː/

Deep Dive

adverb

Extra meanings

  1. Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

  2. Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Present; current.

More examples

In context

  • I think this band's sound is very now.

  • Muiriel is 20 now.

  • […] to my now wife Mabell, my child Elisabeth, & my child now begotten, &c., and they to be joint Exõrs, & if all die, then the same jointly to my brother William Every & my sisters Sarah Skibbowe & Joan Brice.

Synonyms

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Origin

adverb

From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (n...