TODAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does today mean? 

• TODAY (noun)
  The noun TODAY has 2 senses:

1. the present time or age

2. the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)

  Familiarity information: TODAY used as a noun is rare.

• TODAY (adverb)
  The adverb TODAY has 2 senses:

1. in these times

2. on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow

  Familiarity information: TODAY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TODAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The present time or age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

today we have computers

Hypernyms ("today" is a kind of...):

nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

did you see today's newspaper?

Hypernyms ("today" is a kind of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

• TODAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In these times

Synonyms:

now; nowadays; today

Context example:

today almost every home has television

Sense 2

Meaning:

On this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow

Context example:

I can't meet with you today

 Context examples 

I used the word at the time, and I have used it again, today.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Straws show which way the wind blows, and I've made several discoveries today.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Today, doctors can diagnose many birth defects in the womb.

(Birth Defects, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Today’s gene targeting technologies are very powerful, but often require some functional understanding of the underlying gene to yield useful results and usually only target one or a few genes.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

Millions of Americans alive today have a history of cancer.

(Cancer--Living with Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Today climate changes are happening at an increasingly rapid rate.

(Climate Change, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Just wheer you found him today.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But she will be tried today, and you will then hear all.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They prove that Zealandia was not always as deep beneath the waves as it is today.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

The feathers on this sample lack a central shaft found in today’s feathers.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)