Today
[tə'deɪ] or [tə'de]
Definition
(noun.) the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); 'Today is beautiful'; 'did you see today's newspaper?'.
(noun.) the present time or age; 'the world of today'; 'today we have computers'.
(adv.) on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; 'I can't meet with you today'.
Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet
Examples
- You ought not to have come today, she said in an altered voice; and suddenly she turned, flung her arms about him and pressed her lips to his. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I know he was to see some of the influential people today. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I wouldn't forgive her, and today, if it hadn't been for Laurie, it might have been too late! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'm as dry as a kex with biding up here in the wind, and I haven't seen the colour of drink since nammet-time today. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The average spectator today can see a defect in an exhibited film as quickly as an expert. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How pretty you look today, Thomasin! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If I'd known you were coming I'd have had something ready for you today, though not as pretty as this, I'm afraid. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'm sure it's no pleasure to me to go today, but it's a debt we owe society, and there's no one to pay it but you and me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Now, if 't hadn't been for me today, she'd a been took a dozen times. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And in the Model A Addressograph, we find the basic principle of the addressograph of today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And today there is not enough of you left to make a sick kitten. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This is the second time I have been wounded today. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The motorcycle in its form of today was designed and built by America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And today was the white, snowy iridescent threshold of all possibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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