todayadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/təˈdeɪ/, U.S.

/təˈdeɪ/

Forms: see to prep., conj., and adv. and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: to prep., day n.

Etymology: < to prep. + day n. Compare tonight adv., tomorrow adv., and to year adv.In Old English originally a prepositional phrase with unmarked dative singular of day n. (compare discussion at that entry); the form tō dæge with regular dative singular ending of the noun is occasionally attested as a variant. In earlier use often written as two words or with hyphen. (Word division in Old English and Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.)

A. adv.

a. On or during this day. Cf. the day at day n. Phrases 9e.In early use often with preceding now for emphasis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > today

todayeOE

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lviii. 441 Ic hæbbe ðe nu todæg [L. hodie] gesetne ofer rice & ofer ðioda.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) i. 8 God cwæð to me, ðu eart min sunu, nu todæg ic gestrynde þe.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 656 Ic Wulfere gife to dæi Sancte Petre & þone abbode Saxulf & þa munecas of þe mynstre þas landes [etc.].

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 Gif us to dai ure daihwamliche bred.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4001 Cesar wolde nu to-dæi Brut-lond biwinnen.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiii. 32 Loo! I caste out fendis..to day and to morwe.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. xxii. D That he maye be wroth to daye or tomorrow.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. [xcv.] 7 To daye yf ye wil heare his voyce [etc.].

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I3^v And bad me ware this cursed sute to day .

1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 3 To day they chac'd the Boar.

1765 J. Wedgwood Let. 6 July in Sel. Lett. (1965) 35 Mr Grants desert service will be sent today.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. v. 225 He will plead for the plaintiff today.

1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 63 To-day thou wilt not see him, nor to-morrow.

1897 Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 The inauguration exercises took place to-day.

1915 D. Haig Diary 3 Dec. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 171 If the PM did not settle the matter today, he would again press for a settlement tomorrow.

1952 B. Pym Excellent Women ii. 15 The new people moved into my house today.

2006 Independent 30 Dec. 34/1 There are many last-minute Christmas shoppers in today, especially men.

b. With a specified period of time: as reckoned from today.

(a) With reference to a future event. Originally with following word, as today week, today fortnight, etc. (now chiefly British); later chiefly with preceding word, as a week today, a year today, etc. Cf. week n. Phrases 2.In the United States, when referring to a date a specified amount of time in the future a week from today, two months from today, etc., is typically used.

ΚΠ

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2714 To-daie [c1300 Otho To-dai] a seouen-nihte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1398 Of þi dede he bad me say, Þat sal be to day thrid day [a1400 Vesp. to dai þe thrid dai; a1400 Fairf. þis þrid day; a1400 Trin. Cambr. þis day þridde day].

1852 G. Chouquet Conversat. & Dialogues 49/1 When will you send me these boots? Today week, without fail.

1895 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 156/1 We are to be married to-day fortnight.

1971 Daily Tel. 19 July 7 Apollo 15 America's eighth manned flight for the Moon, is due to be launched on a 12-day mission..from Cape Kennedy a week today.

1989 Times 7 Dec. 37/2 The first British telecottage, to be officially opened today week, has been set up in a school at Warslow.

2017 @TweetingBeattie 24 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Two weeks today I will be starting my new job—better get a move on and get my list of things to do done.

(b) With reference to a past event or an ongoing situation. With preceding word and frequently with since, referring to a length of time that has elapsed from a specified event (e.g. it’s a year today since…), or with ago, referring to a date a specified amount of time in the past (e.g. it happened a year ago today).In quot. 1483 to day threday refers to the day before yesterday.

ΚΠ

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: St. John & Boy (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Todai I to dai fourtenniht tald Hou sain Ion bodword broht.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 389 To day threday [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 today thrydday], nudius tercius.

1654 R. Flecknoe Love's Dominion iii. ii. 33 Now Sir, six months to day are just expir'd, Since there ariv'd here one o'th' most admir'd Nymphs.

1698 R. Howson et al. Second Part Boy of Bilson 16 She is mine, she is mine, and hath been so twelve Weeks to day about three of the Clock.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella (2013) 324 Stay, young women, don't you begin to owe me a letter? just a month to-day since I had your No. 22.

1838 F. Trollope Romance of Vienna I. ii. 20 We have been at it exactly two months to-day.

1864 Peterson's Mag. Mar. 214/1 I know the sun shines with as bright a ray As it did, in the sky, a year to-day.

1920 Sabbath Recorder 5 Jan. 17/1 It is seven weeks today since we landed in Shanghai.

1955 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. 11/1 World War II began 16 years ago today shortly before 5:30 a.m. eastern European time.

2001 R. Joshi Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) 152 One year today, one whole year gone and this bastard Government's done sweet FA.

c. As the complement of a preposition, as before, from, until, etc.Such uses are normally analysed (as here) as showing the adverb, but could alternatively be analysed as showing the noun; see sense B. 1.

ΚΠ

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ffij^v/2 I neuer harde this man before to daye. Istunc hominem nunquam audiueram ante hunc diem.

1633 Match at Mid-night iv. i. sig. G4 I must tell thee true Widdow, I have loved thee long time..but had never the wit to let thee know it till to day.

1692 Gallantry Unmask'd 42 in Modern Novels XI I was never inquisitive until to day.

1746 D. Hume Let. 17 Oct. (1932) I. 98 The General has not sent off his Dispatches till to day.

1836 C. Dickens Let. 5 Nov. (1965) I. 191 I have deemed it right to beg you to accept my notice from to-day.

1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael ix. 159 I never danced with any one in my life until to-day.

1941 J. Grenfell Let. 30 Mar. in Darling Ma (1989) 283 Celia has been here till today and I've loved having her.

1989 Atlantic Oct. 18/4 After today residents of New York City are prohibited from acquiring pit bull terriers.

2007 Independent 21 Dec. 34/1 The Schengen agreement will expand from today to include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta.

2. In extended use: at the present time; in the present period or age; nowadays.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb]

noweOE

nowtheOE

nughuOE

todayOE

nowthenc1225

orc1275

in presentc1330

in this presentc1330

now by dawec1330

of present1340

presentc1385

nowadays?1387

adaysa1393

nowadaya1393

now on daysa1393

presently?a1425

now of daysc1425

now-o'-daysc1450

at (the) presenta1500

at this presenta1500

nowdaysa1500

currently1579

on the presenta1616

actually1663

nowanights1672

naow1824

at this (or the) present speaking1835

again1837

contemporarily1837

nowdays1850

any more1859

hic et nunc1935

at this moment in time1936

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28. Ða geþafedon hi ðære arednesse.., þæt ðær seo wise on tweon cyme, þæt hi ðonne ma of þam wifcynne him cyning curan..: þæt get to dæg is mid Peohtum healden.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28 Þæt cynn nu geond todæg Dalreadingas wæron hatene.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5415 Forr þa shall godess kinedom. Allallswillc beon onn eorþe. Alls itt iss upp inn heoffness ærd To daȝȝ wiþþ godess enngless.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2123 Þe thrid part..hatt quar mast to day Regns o þe cristen lay.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2180 Þat time..al men spak bot wit on tong, Þat es hebru..Þat Iuus haldes til to dai.

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 117 These pretences were no lesse specious and reall, then the specious and spurious pretences of our glorious Reformers, and zealous Patriots to day.

1699 S. Garth Dispensary iv. 47 Five Guinneas make a Criminal to Day.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xvi. 277 To-day, men are agreed, that, to the truth of the proposition..there is but this one exception.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 7 What great political cause..is England befriending to-day?

1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 81 Wars to-day are not what they were in Roland's time.

1976 Nursing Times 17 June 949/3 Figure 2 summarises some of the services..which are available to the elderly today.

2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Mar. 80/1 Once thousands of wild horses ranged from Europe through central Asia and China to Mongolia. Today only a scattering of one species exists.

B. n.

1. This day; the day that is currently taking place. Also: any day, past or future, considered as currently taking place.For uses where today is the complement of a preposition see sense A. 1c and the note there.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > today

todayOE

the same day1572

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxii. 207 Nu todæg is se uigilia þære mæran freolstide, ðe tomerigen bið.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 123 (MED) Easter dei..nu bið to dei on fowertene niht.

c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 220 (MED) Hure lord godalmichti to us spekeþ ine þo holi godespelle of te day.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. iii. 13 Moneste ȝou silf by alle dayes, the while to day is named [1611 King James while it is called To day; L. donec hodie cognominatur], that noon of ȝou be hardned by falsnesse of synne.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xvi. 25 To daye is y^e Sabbath of the Lorde.

1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. K2 Today is workiday with me for all I haue my best clothes On.

1700 T. Brown tr. P. Scarron Lett. xxxvii. 40 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. I have some reason methinks to complain of you, for not reading that [sc. letter] of to day's date before I had it.

?1705 W. Yarworth Let. in I. Newton Corr. (1977) VII. 441 I have Presum'd to send to thee for the wanted Alowance because to day is Market-day.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 22 To-day is Yesterday return'd.

1829 J. H. Reynolds One, Two, Three, Four, Five i. ii. 13 You allude, I presume, to the advertisement in to-day's paper.

1846 H. W. Longfellow in Graham's Mag. July 55/1 Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 5/6 To-day has been beautifully fine throughout.

1918 High School Life July 704 Tomorrow is an inspiration to better our todays.

1922 Daily Mail 6 Dec. 12 North Midlands hope to field a powerful fifteen in to-day's match v. Warwickshire.

1982 S. Townsend Secret Diary Adrian Mole 40 My mother had forgotten that today was pancake day.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Aug. (Front section) 17/3 Today is the end of solar summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

2. In extended use: the present time; the current period or age.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun]

instancec1374

nowa1393

presenta1425

nowadays?c1425

the time1484

presentens1509

here1608

present tense1630

now1633

the now1720

day1766

today1831

this day and age1832

of the period1859

nowaday1886

these days1936

1831 A. Bigelow Trav. Malta & Sicily vii. 187 I turn to the reminiscence of a fallen line of heroes,—from the people of today, to a people who are past.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 264 From the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chosen a soldier for a hero.

1889 Tablet 14 Dec. 947 The educated Scotchman of to-day.

1917 Agric. Student (Columbus, Ohio) May 570/1 Today is an age of machinery and mechanical devices.

1950 Western Horseman Sept. 11/1 (caption) The Arab-Spanish-Portuguese saddle of today has not changed much since the XII century.

2014 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 19 Jan. (Herald-Times ed.) f5/1 Today's teens are notorious over-sharers on social media.

C. adj.

colloquial. Concerned with the present time; characteristic of or suitable for the period or age; modern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective]

present1340

nowa1393

presentary?a1425

unrun1474

modernc1485

hodiern?a1513

actual1525

modernal1542

instantc1550

this1582

immediate1605

current1608

nowadays1609

nowaday1632

hodiernal1656

living1659

running1659

daily1663

existent1676

existing1827

present-day1833

presential1878

today1908

1908 Insurance Press 25 Mar. 14/1 Don't be a historian or a prophet. Be a today writer.

1908 Mexican Mining Jrnl. Oct. 13/2 The Chileno is very much a ‘today man’ and commendable enterprises are shown in many directions.

1976 ‘A. Cross’ Question of Max xiii. 154 It's old-fashioned and sentimental and altogether not ‘today’ to talk of restitution.

2002 C. S. G. Krishnamacharyulu & L. Ramakrishnan Rural Marketing (2008) ii. vi. 171 The classical marketing person's stereotype of the ‘today woman’ who is venturing further afield.

2005 Weekly World News 7 Nov. 15 The names we chose are very ‘today’, very cutting-edge.

Phrases

Contrasted with tomorrow, †tomorn, to indicate the tendency of circumstances to change. See also here today and gone tomorrow at here adv. 1e.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > today > today and tomorrow

todayOE

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) v. 48 Forwel oft..we earfoðlice him filiað tomerigen, se ðe nu todæg is ure folgere geðuht.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 21 To dei he mei, tomarȝan hit him is awane.

a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 112 Ȝif þu hauist a frend to-day & to-moreuin driuist him awei, þenne bes-þu one, al so þu her were.

c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 195 Here to-day, a-wey to-morn!

c1475 Prov. Wisdom (Rawl.) l. 116 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 90 246 To day a man, to morow non.

?1518 R. Copland tr. P. Gringore Complaynte them that ben to late Maryed (new ed.) sig. A.iii To daye I had peas rest and vnyte To morowe I had plete & processe dyuers.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 30 To day ane man, is fresche and fair, To morne he lyis seik and sair.

a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 650 You can make no rules for the Wind, why it should blow South to day, and North to morrow.

a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 89 To day the lover walks, to-morrow is no more.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 25 Here, for to day..but to-morrow, it goes away for ever!

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. viii. 314 Thus are we fools of Fortune—to-day glad—to-morrow dejected!

1910 Mother Earth June 139 Advocating a thing to-day and to-morrow kissing its enemies' sleeve.

2009 Atlantic Monthly July 96/2 In a world of ongoing technological acceleration, today's cutting-edge brain implant would be tomorrow's obsolete junk.

Derivatives

toˈdayish adj. now rare of or relating to the present time; characteristically modern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern

modern1585

new-schoolish1844

New World1847

latter day1850

contemporary1859

unantiquated1859

todayish1864

contemporaneous1871

modernistic1878

presentist1878

up to date1888

down to date1893

up-with-the-times1893

de nos jours1909

up to the minute1909

chromium-plate1924

chromium-plated1924

contempo1944

now1955

New Wave1960

nouveau1974

1864 J. D. Campbell in Glasgow Herald 9 Nov. ‘Old Boy’, as a form of familiar address,..to-dayish as it may sound,..is at least a century old.

1921 Dial Nov. 615 Things as irresponsible and spontaneous and to-dayish as these Gallic entertainments, cannot be produced t'other side the Atlantic.

2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 21 Jan. w4 The film..puts a todayish spin on two classic genres, the romantic comedy and the sex comedy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	today
释义	todayadv.n.adj. Brit. /təˈdeɪ/, U.S. /təˈdeɪ/ Forms: see to prep., conj., and adv. and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: to prep., day n. Etymology: < to prep. + day n. Compare tonight adv., tomorrow adv., and to year adv.In Old English originally a prepositional phrase with unmarked dative singular of day n. (compare discussion at that entry); the form tō dæge with regular dative singular ending of the noun is occasionally attested as a variant. In earlier use often written as two words or with hyphen. (Word division in Old English and Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.) A. adv. 1. a. On or during this day. Cf. the day at day n. Phrases 9e.In early use often with preceding now for emphasis. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > today todayeOE eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lviii. 441 Ic hæbbe ðe nu todæg [L. hodie] gesetne ofer rice & ofer ðioda. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) i. 8 God cwæð to me, ðu eart min sunu, nu todæg ic gestrynde þe. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 656 Ic Wulfere gife to dæi Sancte Petre & þone abbode Saxulf & þa munecas of þe mynstre þas landes [etc.]. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 Gif us to dai ure daihwamliche bred. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4001 Cesar wolde nu to-dæi Brut-lond biwinnen. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiii. 32 Loo! I caste out fendis..to day and to morwe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. xxii. D That he maye be wroth to daye or tomorrow. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. [xcv.] 7 To daye yf ye wil heare his voyce [etc.]. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I3^v And bad me ware this cursed sute to day . View more context for this quotation 1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 3 To day they chac'd the Boar. 1765 J. Wedgwood Let. 6 July in Sel. Lett. (1965) 35 Mr Grants desert service will be sent today. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. v. 225 He will plead for the plaintiff today. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 63 To-day thou wilt not see him, nor to-morrow. 1897 Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 The inauguration exercises took place to-day. 1915 D. Haig Diary 3 Dec. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 171 If the PM did not settle the matter today, he would again press for a settlement tomorrow. 1952 B. Pym Excellent Women ii. 15 The new people moved into my house today. 2006 Independent 30 Dec. 34/1 There are many last-minute Christmas shoppers in today, especially men. b. With a specified period of time: as reckoned from today. (a) With reference to a future event. Originally with following word, as today week, today fortnight, etc. (now chiefly British); later chiefly with preceding word, as a week today, a year today, etc. Cf. week n. Phrases 2.In the United States, when referring to a date a specified amount of time in the future a week from today, two months from today, etc., is typically used. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2714 To-daie [c1300 Otho To-dai] a seouen-nihte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1398 Of þi dede he bad me say, Þat sal be to day thrid day [a1400 Vesp. to dai þe thrid dai; a1400 Fairf. þis þrid day; a1400 Trin. Cambr. þis day þridde day]. 1852 G. Chouquet Conversat. & Dialogues 49/1 When will you send me these boots? Today week, without fail. 1895 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 156/1 We are to be married to-day fortnight. 1971 Daily Tel. 19 July 7 Apollo 15 America's eighth manned flight for the Moon, is due to be launched on a 12-day mission..from Cape Kennedy a week today. 1989 Times 7 Dec. 37/2 The first British telecottage, to be officially opened today week, has been set up in a school at Warslow. 2017 @TweetingBeattie 24 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Two weeks today I will be starting my new job—better get a move on and get my list of things to do done. (b) With reference to a past event or an ongoing situation. With preceding word and frequently with since, referring to a length of time that has elapsed from a specified event (e.g. it’s a year today since…), or with ago, referring to a date a specified amount of time in the past (e.g. it happened a year ago today).In quot. 1483 to day threday refers to the day before yesterday. ΚΠ a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: St. John & Boy (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Todai I to dai fourtenniht tald Hou sain Ion bodword broht. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 389 To day threday [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 today thrydday], nudius tercius. 1654 R. Flecknoe Love's Dominion iii. ii. 33 Now Sir, six months to day are just expir'd, Since there ariv'd here one o'th' most admir'd Nymphs. 1698 R. Howson et al. Second Part Boy of Bilson 16 She is mine, she is mine, and hath been so twelve Weeks to day about three of the Clock. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella (2013) 324 Stay, young women, don't you begin to owe me a letter? just a month to-day since I had your No. 22. 1838 F. Trollope Romance of Vienna I. ii. 20 We have been at it exactly two months to-day. 1864 Peterson's Mag. Mar. 214/1 I know the sun shines with as bright a ray As it did, in the sky, a year to-day. 1920 Sabbath Recorder 5 Jan. 17/1 It is seven weeks today since we landed in Shanghai. 1955 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. 11/1 World War II began 16 years ago today shortly before 5:30 a.m. eastern European time. 2001 R. Joshi Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) 152 One year today, one whole year gone and this bastard Government's done sweet FA. c. As the complement of a preposition, as before, from, until, etc.Such uses are normally analysed (as here) as showing the adverb, but could alternatively be analysed as showing the noun; see sense B. 1. ΚΠ 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ffij^v/2 I neuer harde this man before to daye. Istunc hominem nunquam audiueram ante hunc diem. 1633 Match at Mid-night iv. i. sig. G4 I must tell thee true Widdow, I have loved thee long time..but had never the wit to let thee know it till to day. 1692 Gallantry Unmask'd 42 in Modern Novels XI I was never inquisitive until to day. 1746 D. Hume Let. 17 Oct. (1932) I. 98 The General has not sent off his Dispatches till to day. 1836 C. Dickens Let. 5 Nov. (1965) I. 191 I have deemed it right to beg you to accept my notice from to-day. 1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael ix. 159 I never danced with any one in my life until to-day. 1941 J. Grenfell Let. 30 Mar. in Darling Ma (1989) 283 Celia has been here till today and I've loved having her. 1989 Atlantic Oct. 18/4 After today residents of New York City are prohibited from acquiring pit bull terriers. 2007 Independent 21 Dec. 34/1 The Schengen agreement will expand from today to include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta. 2. In extended use: at the present time; in the present period or age; nowadays. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] noweOE nowtheOE nughuOE todayOE nowthenc1225 orc1275 in presentc1330 in this presentc1330 now by dawec1330 of present1340 presentc1385 nowadays?1387 adaysa1393 nowadaya1393 now on daysa1393 presently?a1425 now of daysc1425 now-o'-daysc1450 at (the) presenta1500 at this presenta1500 nowdaysa1500 currently1579 on the presenta1616 actually1663 nowanights1672 naow1824 at this (or the) present speaking1835 again1837 contemporarily1837 nowdays1850 any more1859 hic et nunc1935 at this moment in time1936 OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28. Ða geþafedon hi ðære arednesse.., þæt ðær seo wise on tweon cyme, þæt hi ðonne ma of þam wifcynne him cyning curan..: þæt get to dæg is mid Peohtum healden. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28 Þæt cynn nu geond todæg Dalreadingas wæron hatene. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5415 Forr þa shall godess kinedom. Allallswillc beon onn eorþe. Alls itt iss upp inn heoffness ærd To daȝȝ wiþþ godess enngless. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2123 Þe thrid part..hatt quar mast to day Regns o þe cristen lay. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2180 Þat time..al men spak bot wit on tong, Þat es hebru..Þat Iuus haldes til to dai. 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 117 These pretences were no lesse specious and reall, then the specious and spurious pretences of our glorious Reformers, and zealous Patriots to day. 1699 S. Garth Dispensary iv. 47 Five Guinneas make a Criminal to Day. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xvi. 277 To-day, men are agreed, that, to the truth of the proposition..there is but this one exception. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 7 What great political cause..is England befriending to-day? 1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 81 Wars to-day are not what they were in Roland's time. 1976 Nursing Times 17 June 949/3 Figure 2 summarises some of the services..which are available to the elderly today. 2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Mar. 80/1 Once thousands of wild horses ranged from Europe through central Asia and China to Mongolia. Today only a scattering of one species exists. B. n. 1. This day; the day that is currently taking place. Also: any day, past or future, considered as currently taking place.For uses where today is the complement of a preposition see sense A. 1c and the note there. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > today todayOE the same day1572 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxii. 207 Nu todæg is se uigilia þære mæran freolstide, ðe tomerigen bið. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 123 (MED) Easter dei..nu bið to dei on fowertene niht. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 220 (MED) Hure lord godalmichti to us spekeþ ine þo holi godespelle of te day. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. iii. 13 Moneste ȝou silf by alle dayes, the while to day is named [1611 King James while it is called To day; L. donec hodie cognominatur], that noon of ȝou be hardned by falsnesse of synne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xvi. 25 To daye is y^e Sabbath of the Lorde. 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. K2 Today is workiday with me for all I haue my best clothes On. 1700 T. Brown tr. P. Scarron Lett. xxxvii. 40 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. I have some reason methinks to complain of you, for not reading that [sc. letter] of to day's date before I had it. ?1705 W. Yarworth Let. in I. Newton Corr. (1977) VII. 441 I have Presum'd to send to thee for the wanted Alowance because to day is Market-day. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 22 To-day is Yesterday return'd. 1829 J. H. Reynolds One, Two, Three, Four, Five i. ii. 13 You allude, I presume, to the advertisement in to-day's paper. 1846 H. W. Longfellow in Graham's Mag. July 55/1 Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 5/6 To-day has been beautifully fine throughout. 1918 High School Life July 704 Tomorrow is an inspiration to better our todays. 1922 Daily Mail 6 Dec. 12 North Midlands hope to field a powerful fifteen in to-day's match v. Warwickshire. 1982 S. Townsend Secret Diary Adrian Mole 40 My mother had forgotten that today was pancake day. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Aug. (Front section) 17/3 Today is the end of solar summer in the Northern Hemisphere. 2. In extended use: the present time; the current period or age. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] instancec1374 nowa1393 presenta1425 nowadays?c1425 the time1484 presentens1509 here1608 present tense1630 now1633 the now1720 day1766 today1831 this day and age1832 of the period1859 nowaday1886 these days1936 1831 A. Bigelow Trav. Malta & Sicily vii. 187 I turn to the reminiscence of a fallen line of heroes,—from the people of today, to a people who are past. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 264 From the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chosen a soldier for a hero. 1889 Tablet 14 Dec. 947 The educated Scotchman of to-day. 1917 Agric. Student (Columbus, Ohio) May 570/1 Today is an age of machinery and mechanical devices. 1950 Western Horseman Sept. 11/1 (caption) The Arab-Spanish-Portuguese saddle of today has not changed much since the XII century. 2014 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 19 Jan. (Herald-Times ed.) f5/1 Today's teens are notorious over-sharers on social media. C. adj. colloquial. Concerned with the present time; characteristic of or suitable for the period or age; modern. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] present1340 nowa1393 presentary?a1425 unrun1474 modernc1485 hodiern?a1513 actual1525 modernal1542 instantc1550 this1582 immediate1605 current1608 nowadays1609 nowaday1632 hodiernal1656 living1659 running1659 daily1663 existent1676 existing1827 present-day1833 presential1878 today1908 1908 Insurance Press 25 Mar. 14/1 Don't be a historian or a prophet. Be a today writer. 1908 Mexican Mining Jrnl. Oct. 13/2 The Chileno is very much a ‘today man’ and commendable enterprises are shown in many directions. 1976 ‘A. Cross’ Question of Max xiii. 154 It's old-fashioned and sentimental and altogether not ‘today’ to talk of restitution. 2002 C. S. G. Krishnamacharyulu & L. Ramakrishnan Rural Marketing (2008) ii. vi. 171 The classical marketing person's stereotype of the ‘today woman’ who is venturing further afield. 2005 Weekly World News 7 Nov. 15 The names we chose are very ‘today’, very cutting-edge. Phrases Contrasted with tomorrow, †tomorn, to indicate the tendency of circumstances to change. See also here today and gone tomorrow at here adv. 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > today > today and tomorrow todayOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) v. 48 Forwel oft..we earfoðlice him filiað tomerigen, se ðe nu todæg is ure folgere geðuht. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 21 To dei he mei, tomarȝan hit him is awane. a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 112 Ȝif þu hauist a frend to-day & to-moreuin driuist him awei, þenne bes-þu one, al so þu her were. c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 195 Here to-day, a-wey to-morn! c1475 Prov. Wisdom (Rawl.) l. 116 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 90 246 To day a man, to morow non. ?1518 R. Copland tr. P. Gringore Complaynte them that ben to late Maryed (new ed.) sig. A.iii To daye I had peas rest and vnyte To morowe I had plete & processe dyuers. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 30 To day ane man, is fresche and fair, To morne he lyis seik and sair. a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 650 You can make no rules for the Wind, why it should blow South to day, and North to morrow. a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 89 To day the lover walks, to-morrow is no more. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 25 Here, for to day..but to-morrow, it goes away for ever! 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. viii. 314 Thus are we fools of Fortune—to-day glad—to-morrow dejected! 1910 Mother Earth June 139 Advocating a thing to-day and to-morrow kissing its enemies' sleeve. 2009 Atlantic Monthly July 96/2 In a world of ongoing technological acceleration, today's cutting-edge brain implant would be tomorrow's obsolete junk. Derivatives toˈdayish adj. now rare of or relating to the present time; characteristically modern. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern modern1585 new-schoolish1844 New World1847 latter day1850 contemporary1859 unantiquated1859 todayish1864 contemporaneous1871 modernistic1878 presentist1878 up to date1888 down to date1893 up-with-the-times1893 de nos jours1909 up to the minute1909 chromium-plate1924 chromium-plated1924 contempo1944 now1955 New Wave1960 nouveau1974 1864 J. D. Campbell in Glasgow Herald 9 Nov. ‘Old Boy’, as a form of familiar address,..to-dayish as it may sound,..is at least a century old. 1921 Dial Nov. 615 Things as irresponsible and spontaneous and to-dayish as these Gallic entertainments, cannot be produced t'other side the Atlantic. 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 21 Jan. w4 The film..puts a todayish spin on two classic genres, the romantic comedy and the sex comedy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.n.adj.eOE
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