nowaday
/nˈaʊədˌeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
adv
Alternative form of nowadays.
noun
The present period; contemporary times.
Example Sentences
- "Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear."
- "The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow."
- "Or that these (shall we go ahead and call both outcomes issues) would be the nowaday worries, with no time out?"
- "“What are you talking about? What gift? And what does it have to do with Gypsies? “He said the true Gypsies—not to be mixed up with the nowaday Tinkers—were very people intuitive. […]”"
- "Of this we may be sure, that the most haphazard guess at the cause by the most unlettered, nowaday, will be nearer the mark-thanks to the diffusion of knowledge—than were the speculations of the learned, ages ago […]"
- "thinking of some kind of a program for social legislation. You get what I mean, building up a vast reservoir of — better folks. Nowaday we're beginning to control the breeding of animals."