Nowadays Meaning
/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advAt the present time; in the current era.
Sentence Examples
Nowadays we are apt to forget the benefits of nature.
Beef is expensive nowadays.
Nowadays most kids prefer going online to reading books.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Many people use smartphones ____, but in the past they used flip phones.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____, most people use their smartphones to keep track of their daily schedules.
Word Origin & History
From now + adays.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 2:
"What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?"
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Cowardize, the Mother of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 399:
"The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz."
— 1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the Description of Germany”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; […], volumes IV (Containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, § 4, page 4:
"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 Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50:
"'Cause everybody's happy nowadays / Everybody's happy nowadays"
— 1979, “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”, performed by Buzzcocks:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Many people use smartphones ____, but in the past they used flip phones.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____, most people use their smartphones to keep track of their daily schedules.