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now·a·days       [nou-uh-deyz] Pronunciation Key
–adverb
1.at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
–noun
2.the present: The kitchens of nowadays are much more efficient than when I was a boy.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME nou adaies; see now, a-1, day, -s1]
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now·a·days       (nou'ə-dāz')  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   During the present time; now.


[Middle English nouadaies : nou, now; see now + a (variant of on, on; see on) + daies, genitive of dai, day; see day.]

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nowadays 
1474, contracted from M.E. nou A dayes (1362), from now + adayes "during the day," with adverbial gen.

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nowadays

adverb
1. in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television" 

noun
1. the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow" [syn: present

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Nowadays

Now"a*days`\, adv. [For now on (OE. an) days. See A-, 1.] In these days; at the present time.

What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays ? --Garrick.

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