now

About 557.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Nyambo.
2. adjective Present; current.
3. adjective Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

   I think this band's sound is very now.

4. adverb At the present time.

   Now I am six.

5. adverb Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.

   Now, we all want what is best for our children.

6. adverb Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.

   Now I am ready.

7. adverb At the time reached within a narration.

   Now he remembered why he had come.

8. adverb Used to indicate a context of urgency.

   Now listen, we must do something about this.

Similar words

nowadays at once instantly immediately right away today forthwith directly straightaway at present

Often followed by

the that in i and to a be it

Word family

NOW nows