nowadayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

同意語

• (from the present time): current, present

副詞

nowaday (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nowadays
   • 1870, The Illustrated London News, volume 48, page 679:

     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 […]

   • 1936, Charles Morrow Wilson, “Rabble Rouser”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), page 247:

     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.

   • 1999, Brian Keith Jackson, “Walking Through Mirrors”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), page 212:

     I suppose I could; women havin' babies much later nowaday

使用する際の注意点

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

名詞

nowaday

1. (まれに) 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 ουντυγχάνω 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).

   • 1995, Cynthia Mills Coté, Amazing grace: the story of some Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the Stevensons, Flemings, and others, who migrated from North Carolina to Missouri in 1819, page 120:

     When I think back over the one hundred years that the Stevensons lived there, the things we had to deal with and use, would give these safety people of nowaday a blood hemorrhage.

   • 2008, Edra Ziesk, The Trespasser, page 25:

     Sometimes Heke was living in the nowaday, sometimes he was with Rudy and Royl, his mother and father, who had both passed years back, and with his sister Narcissa in the long ago.

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