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Modern vs Nowaday - What's the difference?

modern | nowaday |

As adjectives the difference between modern and nowaday

is that modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient while nowaday is existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.

As nouns the difference between modern and nowaday

is that modern is someone who lives in modern times while nowaday is (lb) the present period; contemporary times.

As an adverb nowaday is

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modern

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Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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  • *:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
  • Synonyms

    * contemporary

    Antonyms

    * dated * old * pre-modern * ancient

    Derived terms

    * modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modern

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who lives in modern times.
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
  • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
  • * 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
  • Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.

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    nowaday

    English

    Adjective

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  • Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
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  • *2005 , Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub, Yankl Salant, Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets :
  • The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow.
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  • Synonyms

    * (from the present time) current, present

    Adverb

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  • Usage notes

    * Principally used by non-native speakers and in reported speech in fiction. It is also an archaic form.

    Noun

  • (lb) The present period; contemporary times.
  • * 1987 , W.J.Aerts, "Appendix: The Latin-Greek Wordlist in MS 236 of the Municipal Library of Avranches, FOL. 97v", Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986 edited by Reginald Allen Brown, Boydell & Brewer (ISBN 9780851154763), page 69
  • If so, it should be noted that ?????????? 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 Byzantines in (Southern) Italy a greater influence of the Byzantine koine of that time can be postulated).
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