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Recently vs Nowaday - What's the difference?

recently | nowaday |

As adverbs the difference between recently and nowaday

is that recently is in the recent past; newly; lately; freshly; not long since while nowaday is .

As an adjective nowaday is

existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.

As a noun nowaday is

(lb) the present period; contemporary times.

recently

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In the recent past; newly; lately; freshly; not long since.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

    Antonyms

    * long ago * long since

    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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