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- [tuh-dey]
- /təˈdeɪ/
- /təˈdeɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tuh-dey]
- /təˈdeɪ/
Definitions of today word
- noun today this present day: Today is beautiful. 1
- noun today this present time or age: the world of today. 1
- adverb today on this present day: I will do it today. 1
- adverb today at the present time; in these days: Today you seldom see horses. 1
- adjective today Informal. of the present era; up-to-date: the today look in clothing styles. 1
- noun today the current day 1
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Origin of today
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English tō dæg. See to, day
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Today
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
today popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
today usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for today
adj today
- all the rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- brand new — entirely new.
- contempo — contemporary
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
adv today
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.
- at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
- before long — If you say that something will happen or happened before long, you mean that it will happen or happened soon.
- before you know it — rapidly, soon
- by and by — presently or eventually
adjective today
- already — You use already to show that something has happened, or that something had happened before the moment you are referring to. Speakers of British English use already with a verb in a perfect tense, putting it after 'have', 'has', or 'had', or at the end of a clause. Some speakers of American English use already with the simple past tense of the verb instead of a perfect tense.
- commenced — Simple past tense and past participle of commence.
- modernised — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- modernized — Adapt (something) to modern needs or habits, typically by installing modern equipment or adopting modern ideas or methods.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
adverb today
noun today
- nonce — the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
Antonyms for today
adverb today
- future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
Top questions with today
- what is the weather today?
- what the weather for today?
- what is today?
- what time do the cubs play today?
- what holiday is today?
- what is the weather for today?
- who died today?
- what happened in paris today?
- what is today weather?
- what day is today?
- what day is it today?
- what is the weather like today?
- why are flags at half mast today?
- what time is sunset today?
- what is the date today?