nowadaysとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From now +‎ adays.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

副詞

nowadays (not comparable)

1. At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]

   Cars nowadays are more efficient.

   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 2:

     Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Cowardize, the Mother of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 399:

     What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells 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 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     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.

同意語

• (at the present time): currently, in this day and age, now, these days, today