now

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1. ISO 639-3 language code for Nyambo.

adjective

1. Present; current.

2. Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

   “I think this band's sound is very now.”

adverb

1. At the present time.

   “Now I am six.”

2. 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.”

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

   “Now I am ready.”

4. At the time reached within a narration.

   “Now he remembered why he had come.”

conjunction

1. Since, because, in light of the fact.

   “Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.”

interjection

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

   “Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!”