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noun

• The present time.

  Example: Now is the right time.

• (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

  Example: She is living in the now.

• (chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

adjective

• Present; current.

• Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

  Example: I think this band's sound is very now.

• 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.

  Example: Now wife.

adverb

• At the present time.

  Example: Now I am six.

• (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.

  Example: Now stop that, Jimmy!

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

  Example: Now I am ready.

• Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.

  Example: Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.

• At the time reached within a narration.

  Example: He now asked her whether she had made pudding.

• In the context of urgency.

  Example: Now listen, we must do something about this.

• As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.

conjunction

• Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

  Example: Now that we're all here, let's start the meeting.

interjection

• Indicates a signal to begin.

  Example: Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!