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nowadays | x |

As an adverb nowadays

is at the present time; in the current era.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----