Today
adverbOn or during the present day.
How to spell today
5 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce today
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does today mean?
- adverbOn or during the present day.
- nounThe present day or the current time considered as a whole.
Today in a sentence
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adverb
The report is due today before five o'clock.
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noun
The headlines of today focus mostly on the economy.
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adverb
We are driving to the coast today if the weather holds.
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noun
Workers of today expect far more flexibility than before.
Where does today come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word comes from Old English todaeg, a simple compound of the preposition 'to', here meaning 'on' or 'at', and 'daeg', the everyday word for day. So the literal sense was 'on this day', exactly as it still works in modern English. For centuries it was frequently written as two words or hyphenated, as 'to-day', and that older styling survived in print well into the early twentieth century before the closed-up single word became standard. The same 'to' element is preserved in its close relatives 'tonight' and 'tomorrow', all of which once carried the hyphen. Because the word is so familiar, the only real spelling pitfall is remembering that it is now one solid word with no hyphen and a single d.
How the word is built
- to- (on, at, this)
- day (the 24-hour period)
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