nowadays

See also: now-a-days, now-adays, and now a days

English

Alternative forms

• nowaday
• nowadayes (obsolete)
• now-a-days
• now-adays (archaic)
• now a days
• nowdays (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From now +‎ adays.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

• Audio (US)

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Adverb

nowadays (not comparable)

1. At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1595–1596, 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 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 2:

     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.

   • 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 946730821, page 399:

     What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?

   • 1762, A. F. Busching, A New System of Geography, volume 4, translated from German, p.4:

     The appellation of Germany, is seldom used now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     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.

   • 2012, Dick Vinegar, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2012:

     My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.

Synonyms

• (at the present time): currently, now, in this day and age, these days

Translations

at the present time

• Assamese: আজিকালি (azikali)
• Basque: gaur egun (eu)
• Bulgarian: сега (bg) (sega), понастоящем (bg) (ponastojaštem)
• Burmese: ယခုအချိန်တွင် (ya.hku.a.hkyintwang)
• Catalan: actualment (ca), avui dia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現在 (zh), 现在 (zh) (xiànzài)

• Danish: nu om stunder
• Dutch: heden (nl), momenteel (nl), nu (nl)
• Finnish: nykyisin (fi), nykyään (fi)
• French: actuellement (fr), de nos jours (fr), aujourd'hui (fr), présentement (fr) (Canada)
• Georgian: დღესდღეობით (dɣesdɣeobit), ამჟამად (amžamad)
• German: gegenwärtig (de), zur Zeit (de), derzeitig (de), jetzt (de), zurzeit (de), momentan (de)
• Hindi: आज कल (āj kal)
• Hungarian: mostanában (hu), manapság (hu), napjainkban (hu)
• Indonesian: sekarang ini, saat ini
• Italian: oggidì (it), oggigiorno (it)

• Japanese: 現在 (ja) (げんざい, genzai)
• Korean: 요즘 (ko) (yojeum)
• Navajo: dííshjį́
• Persian: امروزه‎ (fa) (emruze)
• Polish: teraz (pl), obecnie (pl)
• Portuguese: hoje em dia (pt), atualmente (pt), hoje (pt), agora (pt)
• Russian: в на́ше вре́мя (v náše vrémja), тепе́рь (ru) (tepérʹ), в на́ши дни (v náši dni), сего́дня (ru) (sevódnja) (read: sevódnja)
• Sanskrit: अद्य (sa) (adya)
• Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh
• Slovak: dnes (sk)
• Spanish: actualmente (es)
• Swedish: numera (sv), nu för tiden (sv), numer (sv)
• Ukrainian: тепе́р (uk) (tepér), ни́ні (nýni)
• Urdu: آج کل‎ (ur) (āj kal)
• Vietnamese: ngày nay (vi), đời nay, dạo này, hiện nay (vi)
• West Frisian: hjoed de dei, hjoeddeis

in the current era

• Bulgarian: в наши дни (v naši dni)
• Catalan: avui dia, avui en dia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現今 (zh), 现今 (zh) (xiànjīn), 現在 (zh), 现在 (zh) (xiànzài), 當今 (zh), 当今 (zh) (dāngjīn)

• Danish: nu til dags, nu om stunder
• Dutch: heden ten dage (nl), tegenwoordig (nl), ^{(please verify)} vandaag de dag, ^{(please verify)} dezer dagen
• Esperanto: hodiaŭe
• Finnish: nykyisin (fi), nykyään (fi), nykyaikana
• French: de nos jours (fr)
• German: heutzutage (de), heute (de)

  Alemannic German: hütigs Tags

• Hebrew: כיום‎ (kayóm)
• Hindi: आज कल (āj kal)
• Hungarian: manapság (hu), napjainkban (hu)
• Indonesian: sekarang (id), saat ini, pada masa kini
• Italian: oggidì (it), oggigiorno (it)

• Japanese: 現在 (ja) (げんざい, genzai), 現代では (gendai de wa), 現代においては (gendai ni oite wa)
• Luxembourgish: hautdesdaags
• Persian: امروزه‎ (fa) (emruze)
• Polish: współcześnie (pl)
• Portuguese: hoje em dia (pt), atualmente (pt), hoje (pt), agora (pt)
• Russian: в на́ши дни (v náši dni), в на́ше вре́мя (v náše vrémja), тепе́рь (ru) (tepérʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh
• Slovak: dnes (sk)
• Slovene: dándánes
• Spanish: hoy en día, hoy día, hogaño (es)
• Swahili: siku hizi
• Swedish: nu för tiden (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠎ-ꠇꠣꠁꠟ (aiz-xail)
• Urdu: آج کل‎ (ur) (āj kal)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "formerly in a combined sense"

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} nune
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} tänapäeval, ^{(please verify)} kaasajal, ^{(please verify)} nüüdisajal
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} لەم ڕۆژانەدا‎ (lem rojaneda)

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} nå til dags
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} no til dags

• Old English: ^{(please verify)} nūhwīlum
• Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} اڄڪلهه‎ (ajjukalha)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} nuförtiden (sv)
• Võro: ^{(please verify)} seo ilma aigo