Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The present day, time, or age: "Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions” ( Carolyn Heilbrun).
- adv. During or on the present day.
- adv. During or at the present time.
- adj. Concerned with or relating to the present time: today issues; the today generation.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Via Middle English, from Old English tōdæge, tō dæge, made from tō + dæge, the dative of dæg ("day"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English to dai, from Old English tō dæge : tō, to; see to + dæge, dative of dæg, day; see agh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If Pelosi had the votes today, the bill would've been scheduled to be voted on *today*”
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“Nor would funding in the stimulous bill for *any* problem we face today have made any difference at all *today* and certainly no funding to deal with a pandemic would have yet born any sort of fruit.”
“Write Thymer Review @WWD @today @review @1. 5 @important @waiting will assign myself a task, due today, called "Write Thymer Review.”
“Haha someone just knocked on my supervisers door and she was sleeping haha poor thing shes been sick mamas not in today either due to sickness I think everyone feels like shit around this place today .”
“But today ooo, today just has to top this shit off.”
“If you make the person of today put money into a 401(k) *today* you make them worse off (since they wanted to put money in a 401(k) tomorrow), but you make their yesterday’s self happy.”
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“only thing changed from the default precision theme is i made it a true today plus (sneak peak appears / disappears by scrolling to different respective icons) clarification on today+: calendar items will always show up. only new items will show up for sms / messages / call log”
“President Obama used some of the harshest rhetoric of his term today in denouncing the Republican jobs plan, saying the GOP's emphasis on less regulations would harm the environment, undercut health care, and failed to produce necessary jobs in the short term.”
“Because the Baath Party was dominated by Sunnis, and ruled ruthlessly over a Shiite majority for decades, the term today also carries sectarian undertones, as was seen Tuesday in Tikrit, Mr. Hussein's hometown in Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad.”
“A person finishing such a term today would have entered prison when Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, Margaret Thatcher was Britain's prime minister, and actress Lindsay Lohan was a year old.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘today’.
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POL - What is Mitt talking about?
Key terms from Mitt Romney's election campaign
good and generous..., hard fought election, go back to work, optimistic and po..., confident in the ..., optimism, uniquely American, nation of immigrants, want a better life, life in that plac..., pursuit of the ri..., richness of this ... and 369 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
america, american, arithmetic, attacked, barack, believe, better, bill, budget, care, class, college and 86 more...
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Time
Words related to time
time, occurrence, duration, schedule, calendar, period, continuance, event, before, until, since, after and 28 more...
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Greg's List
precarious, transient, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, transitoriness, volatility, caducity, span, interregnum, effervescent, mine and 63 more...
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recent
Friends, of, today, are, not, only, interested, molar, Whistles, armpit, stinks, spotted and 26 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Quotidian words
a diary of sorts
crown, dentist, purple, anxiety, relief, day, garbage, cat, a, as, tidy, ha and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for today.
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