Synonyms:
present, nowadays
Meaning: the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow"
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meaning of the word
Synonyms:
nowadays, now, today
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
It's hard enough nowadays to keep body and skirt together.
It is an astonishing thing how few weapons there are nowadays.
Oh, dear, no! That, in my opinion, doesn't touch people much nowadays.
Nowadays, we should simply record the fact and look out for a seventh.
As nowadays, the Moors cruised in boats from the commencement of their marauding expeditions.
Some of them I have had for forty years, old muzzle-loaders that nobody would look at nowadays.
"No; I asked him," replied the detective, "but he stated that houses nowadays were not built with secret passages.
Why, how do we go anywhere, nowadays, except by 'not believing' the evil stories that are told of our entertainers."
"To serve one's ruler nowadays," he remarked, "fully complying with the Rules of Propriety, is regarded by others as toadyism!"
It is unusual, I know, nowadays to do things like this--mainly because there is so little in life that is worth being violent about."