nowadays

1. 1.

   in these times

   “it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished”

   “we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets”

   “today almost every home has television”

   Synonymsnowtoday

Other forms of nowadays

plural

nowadayses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nowadays

What does nowadays mean?

nowadays means "the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nowadays?

nowadays has 3 syllables: no-wa-days. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/.

What is another word for nowadays?

Close synonyms include present, now, today. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nowadays a common word?

nowadays is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nowadays?

4 words rhyme with nowadays. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.