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say it: tuh-DAY
today is a noun and adverb meaning "the present time or age". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)
“Today is beautiful”
“did you see today's newspaper?”
in these times
“it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished”
“we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets”
“today almost every home has television”
on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow
“I can't meet with you today”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for today come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.