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Commonnow
The correct spelling is now.
How to pronounce now
/naʊ/
nounIPA: /naʊ/
Say it like: Now
The correct spelling is now. The present time. For example: "Now is the right time."
Usage Examples
“Now is the right time.”
“She is living in the now.”
“I think this band's sound is very now.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The present time.
- 2.(often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
- 3.(chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
adjective
- 1.Present; current.
- 2.Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
- 3.At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
adverb
- 1.At the present time.
- 2.(sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
- 3.Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
- 4.Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
- 5.At the time reached within a narration.
conjunction
- 1.Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
interjection
- 1.Indicates a signal to begin.
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