today

Noun · Adverb
US[tuh-dey]/təˈdeɪ/2 syllablesalso [too-dey] /tuˈdeɪ/
Synonyms: nowadaysnow

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. the present time or age“the world of today”“today we have computers”Type of present, nowadays
  2. the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)“Today is beautiful”“did you see today's newspaper?”Type of day, twenty-four hours

Adverb (2)

  1. in these times“it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished — Nancy Mitford”“we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets”“today almost every home has television”Synonyms: nowadaysnow
  2. on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow“I can't meet with you today”
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Translations

Adverb on the current day

Spanish
hoy
German
heute
Italian
oggi
Portuguese
hoje
Turkish
bugün
Russian
сего́дня sevódnja
Arabic
الْيَوْمَ al-yawma
Chinese
今天 jīntiān
Japanese
今日 kyō
36 more languages
Dutch
vandaag
Polish
dzisiaj
Swedish
idag
Greek
σήμερα símera
Korean
오늘 oneul
Indonesian
hari ini
Vietnamese
hôm nay
Hungarian
ma
Portuguese (PT)
hoje
Chinese (Trad.)
今天 jīntiān
Albanian
sot
Breton
hiziv
Catalan
avui
Corsican
oghje
Czech
dnes
Danish
i dag
Esperanto
hodiaŭ
Estonian
täna
Finnish
tänään
Georgian
დღეს dɣes
Hebrew
הַיּוֹם hayóm
Icelandic
í dag
Kurdish
îro
Latvian
šodien
Lithuanian
šiandien
Malagasy
anio
Norwegian
i dag
Romanian
astăzi
Scottish Gaelic
an-diugh
Serbo-Croatian
danas
Slovak
dnes
Slovenian
danes
Swahili
leo
Walloon
ouy
Welsh
heddiw
Yiddish
הײַנט haynt

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

To-day \To-day"\, adv. [AS. t[=o] d[ae]g. See To, prep., and Day.] On this day; on the present day. [1913 Webster]

Worcester's horse came but to-day. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


To-day \To-day"\, n. The present day. [1913 Webster]

On to-day Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

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