nowaday adjective 1noun 1 adjective1 •Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear. — 1984 noun1 •(rare) The present period; contemporary times.When I think back over the one hundred years that the Stevensons lived there, the things we had to deal with and use, would give these safety people of nowaday a blood hemorrhage. — 1995