Today vs Nowdays - What's the difference?
today | nowdays |
On the current day or date.
In the current era; nowadays.
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A current day or date.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
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, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Agnes C. Laut, title=The Freebooters of the Wilderness, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage=He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays . }}
As adverbs the difference between today and nowdays
is that today is on the current day or date while nowdays is eye dialect of lang=en.As a noun today
is a current day or date.today
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Alternative forms
* to-day (archaic)Adverb
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(en noun)Synonyms
* current day * this dayUsage notes
Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are (these days) and (nowadays).See also
* nowadays * hodiernal * yesterday * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertiannowdays
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