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today

today

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The day that includes the present moment
  • noun
  • /təˈdeɪ/
translation icon : hoy
  • If not, then perhaps today is the day to let go.

And today, today is one of those days.

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Examples

  • I can't believe today is the last day of the trip.

  • I've been at work today for a long time.

  • For all of you here today, your classes are over.

  • And it looks like today is that day.

  • I learned something interesting today on a science show I heard on the radio ...

    Fiction book (1990)
  • How are you doing today?

  • Children are less physically active today than children of past decades and generations.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Looking forward to the big game today, England against Iceland.

  • Victoria scheduled our fertility appointment for today.

  • If not, then perhaps today is the day to let go.

Antonyms

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On the day after today

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On the day before today

Idioms

9.9

To learn something surprising for the first time today

How Soon

right away
960 1.0
today
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to do it mañana
  • Informal
9.9

Surface Forms

today singular
todays plural

Morphology

today = day (transparent) = to + day

The meaning 'the current day' is directly derived from the combination of 'to' + 'day' (historically 'to-day' = 'on this day'), which is clear to learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'to' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Today comes from old English parts to- meaning 'on' or 'this' and day meaning 'day', so it originally meant 'on this day' and is used to name the current day.