today

Examples

• All

• Should history be a guide to living our lives today and in planning for our tomorrows?

  Academic text (2011)

• The youth of today are quite something.

  Eating Miss Campbell (2022)

• So the question we have today is what do we do now?

• Most of our wealth today depends on debt.

• It's a great assembly today.

  Francis of Assisi (1961)

• Good morning and welcome to today's blog from London.

• Meteorologists have today announced the worst of the extreme storms have finally passed.

  The End We Start From (2023)

• And most people today don't have true friendship.

• Even though Gimbutas died in 1994, archaeologists today are still working in her shadow.

  Academic text (2011)

• Today is an important today for everyone involved in the project.

Synonyms

P

present

vstoday

287 1.0

The time that is happening now

refers more generally to the current age as well as the time we live in

H

here and now

vstoday

70 3.5

The time and place you are in now

omits the location focus and names the present time or age generally

I

in this day and age

vstoday

48 3.8

The present time, especially compared with the past

is a plain label for the ongoing period rather than a contrast phrase

T

this day and age

vstoday

37 3.5

The present time that people often compare with the past

is a basic name for the current time without comparison emphasis

M

modern times

vstoday

29 3.4

The present time when people share common ideas and ways of life

is the neutral label for the present time rather than the era view

P

present times

vstoday

16 3.1

The time now with the common ideas and ways people live

is broader, also including the simple fact of the current time

M

modern era

vstoday

15 3.1

The recent period of history from the Industrial Revolution to today

is the straightforward present-time term without historical contrast

P

present moment

vstoday

15 2.1

The time that is happening now

covers that immediate moment but also the wider present age

N

now

vstoday

4 1.0

The present moment when something is happening

is broader, applying both to that moment and to the whole current period

C

contemporary world

vstoday

2 3.4

The present time and the events, ideas, and conditions that shape life now

is a simpler expression for the same ongoing time period

Idioms

T

today years old

• Slang

9.9

To learn something surprising for the first time today

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology