Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun This present day: as, to-day is Monday.
- noun This present time; the present age: as, the events of to-day.
- On this (present) day; as, he leaves to-day. Compare
to-morrow . - At the present time; in these days.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On this day; on the present day.
- noun The present day.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Archaic spelling of
today . - noun Archaic spelling of
today .
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- adverb in these times
- noun the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)
- noun the present time or age
- adverb on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow
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Examples
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And since Thy years fail not, 22 Thy years are one to-day, How many of ours and our fathers years have flowed away through Thy to-day, and from it received the measure and the mould of such being as they had; and still others shall flow away, and so receive the mould of their degree of being.
The First Book 1909
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It was for to-day -- _to-day_; and she was perhaps too late.
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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"I hope so, Bud; but why don't you do it _to-day_?" she called back, saying to herself, as Johnny broke into a canter, "As if poor Bud ever could do anything to-day!
A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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MacDonagh called to-day.12 Very sad about Ireland.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Thousands of years of effort to throw off their nigrescence have failed to eradicate those race characteristics, and the Jew of to-day is essentially Negro in habits, physical peculiarities and tendencies. . .
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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