nowadays

• now-a-days
• nowaday

From now +‎ adays.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

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nowadays (not comparable)

1. At the present time; in the current era. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. As it Hath Beene Sundry Times Publikely Acted, by the Right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants, [London]: Printed by Iames Roberts, published 1600, OCLC 35186948, [Act III, scene i]:

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

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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 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.

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