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See also: to-day
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English today, to-daie, todæig, from Old English tōdæġ, tō dæġe (“today”, literally “on [the/this] day, [this] day forward”), equivalent to to + day. Compare Saterland Frisian däälich (“today”), Dutch vandaag (“today”), Old Saxon hindag (“today”, literally “[this] day forward”), German Low German vandage, vandaag (“today”), Swedish i dag, idag (“today”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təˈdeɪ/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /təˈdeɪ/, [tʰəˈdeɪ], /tʊˈdeɪ/, [tʰʊˈdeɪ], [tʰʉɾeɪː]
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
- Hyphenation: to‧day
Adverb
[edit]today (not comparable)
- On the current day or date.
- I want this done today.
- Today, my brother went to the shops.
- In the current era; nowadays; these days.
- In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
- (informal) The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
- We used to prepare everything today, but now we split it over two days.
Translations
[edit]on the current day
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Noun
[edit]today (plural todays)
- A current day or date.
- Synonyms: current day, this day
- Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all.
- The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.
- 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
- Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
- (informal or meteorology) From approximately 6am to 6pm on the current day.
- The present time period; nowadays.
Usage notes
[edit]Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are these days and nowadays.
Derived terms
[edit]- better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
- here today, gone tomorrow
- jam today
- never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
- today is a good day to die
- today's lucky 10,000
- today's lucky ten thousand
- today we are all
- today years old
- what date is it today
- what day is it today
- yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
- yesterday-today-tomorrow
Translations
[edit]today (noun)
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Adjective
[edit]today (not comparable)
- (informal) Current; up to date.
- Synonym: now
- 1965, Tom Wolfe, quoting Phil Spector, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 67:
- Actually, it's more like the blues. It's pop blues. I feel it's very American. It's very today. It's what people respond to today.
See also
[edit]- nowadays
- hodiernal
- hodiernally
- yesterday
- tomorrow night
- tonight
- last night
- nudiustertian
- hesternal
- hesternally
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English tōdæġ, equivalent to to- + day.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]today
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “todai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2018.
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