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Nowaday vs Nowdays - What's the difference?

nowaday | nowdays |

As adverbs the difference between nowaday and nowdays

is that nowaday is while nowdays is .

As an adjective nowaday

is existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.

As a noun nowaday

is (lb) the present period; contemporary times.

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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    • nowdays

    English

    Adverb

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Agnes C. Laut, title=The Freebooters of the Wilderness, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Edward Noyes Westcott, title=David Harum, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Pansy, title=Four Girls at Chautauqua, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays . }}