* now-a-days * nowaday

From _now_ +‎ _adays_.

* (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

NOWADAYS (_not comparable_) * At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.] * 1594, William Shakespeare, _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, First Folio 1621, Act III, Scene I: to say the truth, reason and loue keepe little company together, NOWADAYES. * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, _Essays_, II.27: What is it that NOW ADAIES makes all our quarrels mortall? * 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_. * 1945, George Orwell, _Animal Farm_, chapter 6 And in his spare moments, of which there were not many NOWADAYS, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted. * 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, now, in this day and age, these days TRANSLATIONS