| Nonce (n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. Thesaurus Entries contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, historical present, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, our times, present, present tense, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today |