today
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 (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /təˈdeɪ/, [tʰəˈdeɪ], /tʊˈdeɪ/, [tʰʊˈdeɪ], [tʰʉɾeɪː]
Audio (GA) (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
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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