nowaday

Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.

Adjective

  1. Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
    • Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear. - 1984, David Farrelly, The book of bamboo, page 83:
    • The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow. - 2005, Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub, Yankl Salant, Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets:
    • Or that these (shall we go ahead and call both outcomes issues) would be the nowaday worries, with no time out? - 2007, James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey, page 306:

Synonyms

current present

Adverb

  1. Alternative form of nowadays.
    • Of this we may be sure, that the most haphazard guess at the cause by the most unlettered, nowaday, will be nearer the mark-thanks to the diffusion of knowledge—than were the speculations of the learned, ages ago […] -...
    • thinking of some kind of a program for social legislation. You get what I mean, building up a vast reservoir of — better folks. Nowaday we're beginning to control the breeding of animals. - 1936, Charles Morrow Wilson,...
    • I suppose I could; women havin' babies much later nowaday - 1999, Brian Keith Jackson, “Walking Through Mirrors”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 212:

Noun

  1. The present period; contemporary times.
    • If so, it should be noted that ουντυγχάνω does not exist in nowaday's South Italian, and, probably, did not either in medieval South Italian (though it is not excluded, of course, because during the presence of the...
    • When I think back over the one hundred years that the Stevensons lived there, the things we had to deal with and use, would give these safety people of nowaday a blood hemorrhage. - 1995, Cynthia Mills Coté, Amazing...
    • Sometimes Heke was living in the nowaday, sometimes he was with Rudy and Royl, his mother and father, who had both passed years back, and with his sister Narcissa in the long ago. - 2008, Edra Ziesk, The Trespasser,...