different between recently vs nowaday

English

Etymology

recent +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?s?ntli/

Adverb

recently (comparative more recently, superlative most recently)

1. In the recent past

   Synonyms: newly, lately, freshly; see also Thesaurus:recently

   Antonyms: long ago, long since

Translations

English

Adjective

nowaday (not comparable)

1. Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (from the present time): current, present

Adverb

nowaday (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nowadays

Usage notes

• Archaic in standard English, nowaday is principally used by non-native speakers and in reported speech in fiction.

Noun

nowaday

1. (rare) 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, 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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