today.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English today, to-daie, todæig, from 古期英語 tōdæġ, tō dæġe (“today”, literally “on [the/this] day, [this] day forward”), equivalent to to +‎ day. Compare Saterland Frisian däälich (“today”), Dutch vandaag (“today”), Old Saxon hindag (“today”, literally “[this] day forward”), German Low German vandage, vandaag (“today”), Swedish i dag, idag (“today”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /təˈdeɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈdeɪ/, [tʰəˈdeɪ], /tʊˈdeɪ/, [tʰʊˈdeɪ], [tʰʉɾeɪː]
• 韻: -eɪ
• ハイフネーション: to‧day

副詞

today (not comparable)

1. On the current day or date.

   I want this done today.

   Today, my brother went to the shops.

2. In the current era; nowadays.

   In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

名詞

today (複数形 todays)

1. A current day or date.

   Synonyms: current day, this day

   Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all.

   The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.

   • 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

     Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …

2. (informal or meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day.
3. The present time period; nowadays.

使用する際の注意点

Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are these days and nowadays.

派生語

• today is a good day to die

形容詞

today (not comparable)

1. (informal) Current; up to date.

   Synonym: now

   • 1965, Tom Wolfe, quoting Phil Spector, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 67:

     Actually, it's more like the blues. It's pop blues. I feel it's very American. It's very today. It's what people respond to today.

   • 1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     […] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.

参考

• nowadays
• hodiernal
• hodiernally
• yesterday
• tomorrow night
• tonight
• last night
• nudiustertian
• hesternal
• hesternally

アナグラム

• toady

名詞

to‐day (複数形 to-days)

1. Obsolete spelling of today.

参考

• to‐morrow
• to‐night

アナグラム

• toady