English Explanatory Dictionary

today

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. On the current day or date.
  2. In the current era; nowadays; these days.
  3. On the day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
noun
  1. The current day or date.
  2. The 24-hour period beginning at 5 or 6 a.m. or sunrise of the current day.
  3. The present era; nowadays.
adj
  1. Current; up to date.

Pronunciation

/tʊˈdeɪ/ /təˈdeɪ/ En-uk-today.ogg [tʰəˈdeɪ] [tʰʊˈdeɪ] [tʰʉɾeɪː] En-us-today.ogg /ðəˈdeɪ/ /ˈʈʊ.ɖe/ /ʈʊˈɖej/

Word forms

today to-day to day 2day todays

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

now

Related words

nowadays hodiernal hodiernally yesterday tomorrow night tonight last night nudiustertian hesternal hesternally

Derived words

better an egg today than a hen tomorrow here today, gone tomorrow jam today never put off until tomorrow what you can do today today is a good day to die today's lucky 10,000 today's lucky ten thousand today we are all today years old what date is it today what day is it today yesterday-today-and-tomorrow yesterday-today-tomorrow

Translations

Afrikaans: vandag Ainu: タント Arabic: الْيَوْم Arabic: النهرده Arabic: اليوم Arabic: هاد النهار Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܕܝܘܡ Armenian: այսօր Asturian: güei Basque: gaur Bulgarian: днес Bulgarian: дне́ска Catalan: avui Catalan: hui Chinese Cantonese: 今日 Chinese Cantonese: 今天 Hakka Chinese: 今晡日 Chinese: 今仔日 Chinese Mandarin: 今天 Chinese Mandarin: 今日 Czech: dnešek Danish: i dag Dongxiang: ene Dutch: vandaag Ifè: òní Egyptian: mi-n:N5 Esperanto: hodiaŭ Esperanto: hodiaŭo Estonian: täna Finnish: tämä päivä Finnish: kuluva päivä French: aujourd'hui West-Frisian: hjoed Galician: hoxe Georgian: დღეს German: Heute German: heit German: hit German: hüt Greek: σήμερα Paraguayan Guarani: ko ára Gujarati: આજ Hebrew: הַיּוֹם Hindi: आज Hungarian: a mai nap Hungarian: ma Ido: hodie Igala: èñíni Indonesian: hari ini Interlingua: hodie Irish: an lá inniu Italian: oggi Japanese: 今日
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