Definitions for now

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now now

Spelling: [nou]

IPA: /naʊ/

Now is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in now (now).

Definitions for now

noun

1. the present time or moment:

Idioms

1. now and again, occasionally. Also, now and then.
2. now that, inasmuch as; since:

adverb

1. at the present time or moment:
2. without further delay; immediately; at once:
3. at this time or juncture in some period under consideration or in some course of proceedings described:
4. at the time or moment immediately past:
5. in these present times; nowadays:
6. under the present or existing circumstances; as matters stand:
7. (used to introduce a statement or question):
8. (used to strengthen a command, entreaty, or the like):

adjective

1. up-to-the-minute; encompassing the latest ideas, fads, or fashions:

conjunction

1. inasmuch as; since:

Origin of now

before 900; 1965-70 for def 11; Middle English; Old English nū, cognate with Old Norse, Gothic nū; akin to German nun, Latin num, Sanskrit nu, Greek nú, nûn

Examples for now

At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.

The reason I write promptly is that you may not go out of the country just now.

The impulse that had prompted him to hail her now prompted wild words.

Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.

I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

This trained neutrality of Mrs. Bines served her finely now.

He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.

His discourse is now more detailed: submission, which is the meaning of islam in Arabic, gives him a kind of enjoyment.

now you and sis never get up with any such light poetic notion as that.

And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"