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nowadays

English

Alternative forms

  • nowaday
  • nowadayes (obsolete)
  • now-a-days
  • now-adays (archaic)
  • now a days
  • nowdays (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From now +? adays.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?na?.?.de?z/

Adverb

nowadays (not comparable)

  1. At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
    • 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.
    • 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, in this day and age, now, these days, today

Translations

nowadays From the web:

  • what nowadays mean
  • what's nowadays in french
  • nowadays what tense
  • nowadays what does that mean
  • nowadays what is meaning in hindi
  • what's popular nowadays
  • what's cool nowadays
  • what's trending nowadays

hitherto

English

Etymology

From Middle English hiderto, corresponding to hither +? to.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?h?ð??tu?/, /?h?ð??tu?/, [?h?ð??t?u?], [?h?ð??t?u?]
  • (US) IPA(key): /?h?ð??tu/, /?h?ð??tu/, [?h?ð??t?u], [?h?ð??t?u]

Adverb

hitherto (not comparable)

  1. (formal, also law) Up to this or that time.
    Synonyms: up to now, heretofore; see also Thesaurus:hitherto
    Antonyms: from now on, henceforth; see also Thesaurus:henceforth

Related terms

  • thitherto

Translations

hitherto From the web:

  • what hitherto means
  • hitherto what does it mean
  • hitherto what part of speech
  • what does hitherto mean in the bible
  • what does hitherto undreamt of mean
  • what does hitherto
  • what do hitherto mean in the bible
  • what is hitherto in the bible
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