nowadays

n : any continuous stretch of time including the moment of

speech; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in

the present with no thought of tomorrow" [syn: {present}]

adv : in these times; "it is solely by their language that the

upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy

Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on

city streets"; "today almost every home has television"

[syn: {now}, {today}]