Today Meaning
/tʊˈdeɪ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advOn the current day or date.
advIn the current era; nowadays; these days.
Sentence Examples
Today is June 18th and it is Muiriel's birthday!
I won't ask you anything else today.
I've got a piano lesson later today.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She plans to finish her homework ____ because it is due tomorrow.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We are planning to visit the local library later ____ after school.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today."
— 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
"Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …"
— 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
"Actually, it's more like the blues. It's pop blues. I feel it's very American. It's very today. It's what people respond to today."
— 1965, Tom Wolfe, quoting Phil Spector, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 67:
"[…] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah."
— 1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She plans to finish her homework ____ because it is due tomorrow.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We are planning to visit the local library later ____ after school.