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Today   /tədˈeɪ/  /tudˈeɪ/   Listen
Today

adverb
1.
In these times.  Synonyms: now, nowadays.  "We now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets" , "Today almost every home has television"
2.
On this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow.
noun
1.
The present time or age.  "Today we have computers"
2.
The day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow).  "Did you see today's newspaper?"





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"Today" Quotes from Famous Books



... poverty, vice, crime and squalor. As a workingman, living in Pittsburg, you are unhappily familiar with the evils of our present system. It doesn't require a professor of political economy to understand that something is wrong in our American life today. ...
— The Common Sense of Socialism - A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg • John Spargo
... which called me to Mother. She had lighted me that first time so that I might climb into bed with her. Now I thought in my sleep, when I saw the light, that she was calling me again and she found me often at the very point of climbing over to her. I see myself yet today with one foot over the bars, almost in a riding position. Yet nothing ever happened to me. A complete change took place within me when the light of a candle or a lamp fell upon my face. I might almost say that I experienced a great feeling ...
— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger
... when an infusion of tea leaves was given to a ruler of the Chinese Empire to cure a headache. A century later, tea had come into common use as a beverage in that country. As civilization advanced and new countries were formed, tea was introduced as a beverage, and today there is scarcely a locality in which it ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
... was to be celebrated at Brixen today. It was the 2nd of August, the day of St. Cassian, and not only were the bones of this saint, which reposed in the cathedral adorned with two splendid towers to be exhibited as they were every year to the devout pilgrims, but the ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... with her husband, today. I am sorry to say that they do not view your wild and lawless conduct in the same light that I do, and that they are unable to see there is anything positively disreputable in your being mixed up in midnight adventures with ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty


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