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today

[tuh-dey]

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noun

this present day: Today is beautiful.

this present time or age: the world of today.

adverb

on this present day: I will do it today.

at the present time; in these days: Today you seldom see horses.

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Today is always a great word to know.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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adjective

Informal. of the present era; up-to-date: the today look in clothing styles.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tō dæg. See to, day

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There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today.

Today there are many more women teaching, so this question may be more relevant in the forthcoming generations of students.

The first is that even today it struggles to provide for its people.

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There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today.

Today there are many more women teaching, so this question may be more relevant in the forthcoming generations of students.

The first is that even today it struggles to provide for its people.

Some philosophers today are doing more than thinking deeply.

So much of science today revolves around using human biological tissue of some kind.

Helens today is synonymous with huge explosive eruption, death and destruction.

Today our survival is threatened by mad men with oil.

It's more or less impossible to define hysteria in a way that a physician today would find acceptable.

It was earth-shaking in its day and continues to be so today.

Our bodies weren't designed to process the foods and beverages that people are in-taking today.

Even today researchers argue about what separates modern humans from other, extinct hominids.

Go to the national geographic web site and you will see the oil that is still there today.

Today the painting's value is measured in the millions.

TO savor a pancake, doughnut or fritter today is to link yourself up with a tradition of length, breadth and interest.

Most desalination today uses fossil fuels, and thus contributes to increased levels of greenhouse gases.

It has remained virtually the same today as it was in the mid-19th century.

Today it seems nearly as unspoiled as it was many years ago.

Today we're going to recommend that you visit a museum.

Today an autopsy of the iPad reveals that nearly all the.

Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most.

There is no shortage of dinosaur encyclopedias available today.

If you think some of the beers on the market today are bad, you can imagine what this stuff must have tasted like.

In short, he was a man of parts-another way in which he differed so strikingly from politicians of today.

It doesn't really matter what the terms are, but it went down to a fifth of that today or fourth of that.

Today streams have steep banks and gravel riffles and defined channels.

Today he's employed by the city as the bike park's trail master.

When trust is low as it is today and has been for much of the past few decades, policy makers face more constraints".

As common today as it is, vulgar language has been around since the evolution of language.

Our records show that you have already entered the giveaway today.

Unfortunately, much of what he wrote about is still current today.

Today some of his canvases can fetch a million dollars.

Certainly lots of people are alive today that would have died up until recently.

Road-trippers today don't expect much more from a rest stop than a stale vending machine and, if they're lucky, a clean bathroom.

Computer scientists today are matched against spammers in an ongoing arms race.

Brain scans and other types of neurological evidence are rarely a factor in trials today.

Power grids could be devastated by a storm on the sun, astronomers warned today.

Several studies have established that taller people today tend to live longer.

Precious memories need not fade if a report today bears fruit.

Every era has its essential consumer products-witness the ubiquity of cell phones and iPods today.

Four hundred years ago this year, two events marked what scientists and historians today regard as the birth of modern astronomy.

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World English Dictionary

today (təˈdeɪ)

—n
1.	this day, as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow
2.	the present age: children of today

—*adv*
3.	during or on this day
4.	nowadays

[Old English tō dæge, literally: on this day, from to + dæge, dative of dægday]

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Word Origin & History

today

O.E. todæge, to dæge "on (the) day," from to "at, on" (see to) + dæge, dative of dæg "day." Generally written as two words until 16c., after which it usually was written to-day until early 20c. Similar constructions exist in other Gmc. languages (cf. Du.

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van daag "from-day," Dan., Swed. i dag "in day"). Ger. heute is from O.H.G. hiutu, from P.Gmc. *hiu tagu "on (this) day," with first element from PIE pronomial stem *ki-, represented by L. cis "on this side."

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Slang Dictionary

today definition

mod.
now; immediately. (Sarcastic.) : I want it done, now—today. , Come on. Sam. Move it. Today!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

today

see here today, gone tomorrow.

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