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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
To-day \To-day"\, adverb [AS. t[=o] d[ae]g. See {To}, preposition , and {Day}.] On this day; on the present day.
Worcester's horse came but to-day. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
To-day \To-day"\, noun The present day.
On to-day Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
today
noun
1: the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
2: the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
adverb
1: in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television" [syn: {nowadays}, {now}]
2: on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "today": as of now, as things are, at present, at this juncture, at this moment, at this point, at this time, but now, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, even now, for the nonce, for this occasion, here, here and now, hereat, hic et nunc, historical present, in our time, in these days, just now, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, on the spot, our times, present, present tense, presently, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this night, this point, this stage, tonight
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