Meaning

• The present time.

  "Now is the right time."

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

  "She is living in the now."

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

Meaning

• Present; current.

• Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

  "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.

  "Now wife."

Meaning

• At the present time.

  "Now I am six."

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

  "Now stop that, Jimmy!"

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

  "Now I am ready."

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

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

• At the time reached within a narration.

  "He now asked her whether she had made pudding."

• In the context of urgency.

  "Now listen, we must do something about this."

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

Meaning

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

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

Meaning

• Indicates a signal to begin.

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