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Nowadays vs Adays - What's the difference?

nowadays | adays | Derived terms |

Nowadays is a derived term of adays.


As adverbs the difference between nowadays and adays

is that nowadays is at the present time; in the current era while adays is (obsolete) in the daytime.

nowadays

English

Alternative forms

* now-a-days * nowaday

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.

    Synonyms

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

    adays

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In the daytime.

    • Derived terms

    * nowadays