now
adverb
[ naʊ ]
• at the present time or moment.
• "where are you living now?"
Similar:
at the moment,
at present,
just now,
right now,
at the present time,
at the present moment,
at this time,
at this moment in time,
currently,
here and now,
presently,
at the minute,
nowadays,
today,
these days,
in this day and age,
in the present climate,
things being what they are,
in the present circumstances,
contemporarily,
• used, especially in conversation, to draw attention to a particular statement or point in a narrative.
• "now, my first impulse was to run away"
• used in a request, instruction, or question, typically to give a slight emphasis to one's words.
• "we can hardly send her back, now can we?"
• used at the end of an ironic question echoing a previous statement.
• "‘Mum says you might let me have some of your stamps.’ ‘Does she now?’"
now
conjunction
• as a consequence of the fact.
• "they spent a lot of time together now that he had retired"
now
adjective
• fashionable or up to date.
• "see more of what's now during our autumn catwalk show"
Origin:
Old English nū, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch nu, German nun, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nunc and Greek nun .
