Nowadays vs Recent - What's the difference?
nowadays | recent |
At the present time; in the current era.
* , First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I:
*, 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:
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* 2012 , Dick Vinegar, The Guardian , 11 Jun 2012:
Having happened a short while ago.
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, title= Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
As an adverb nowadays
is at the present time; in the current era.As an adjective recent is
recent.nowadays
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Alternative forms
* now-a-days * nowadayAdverb
(-)- to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, nowadayes .
- 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.
- 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 daysrecent
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Adjective
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- The cause has several hundred recent donors.
- I met three recent graduates at the conference.