Adverb

(en adverb)

At this moment, at present, now.

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Adverb

(-)

At the present time; in the current era.

* , First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:

to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, nowadayes .

*, II.27:

*:What is it that now adaies makes all our quarrels 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 .

*

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.