Definition of today

"today" in the noun sense

1. today

the present time or age

"the world of today"

"today we have computers"

2. today

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

"Today is beautiful"

"did you see today's newspaper?"

"today" in the adverb sense

1. nowadays, now, today

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"

2. today

on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow

"I can't meet with you today"

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Quotations for today

Today me, tomorrow you. [ Proverb ]

Today is yesterday's pupil. [ Proverb ]

Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]

Today a man, tomorrow a mouse. [ Proverb ]

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each tomorrow
May find us farther than today. [ Longfellow ]

Today married, tomorrow marred. [ French Proverb ]

If today will not, tomorrow may. [ Proverb ]

Feast today makes fast tomorrow. [ Plautus ]

Live in today, but not for today. [ Proverb ]

Live, live today; tomorrow never yet
On any human being rose or set. [ Marsden ]

Today for thee, and tomorrow for me. [ Cervantes ]

Our youth we can have but today;
We may always find time to grow old. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. [ Young ]

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence.
Do not go forth today. [ William Shakespeare ]

One hour today is worth to two-morrow. [ Proverb ]

Do good today, since thou still livest. [ Villefre ]

You saddle today and ride out tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

Gather the rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. [ Herrick ]

Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

He has drank more than he has bled today. [ Proverb ]

Live for today! tomorrow's light,
Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight;
Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night,
And Heaven thy morn will bless. [ Keble ]

So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in today already walks tomorrow. [ Coleridge ]

What is my turn today may be yours tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

Alas! today I would give everything
To see a friend's face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden ]

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]

The morals of today are made up of appearances. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say:
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. [ Cowley ]

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

He hath been in the sun today, his face looks roasted. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow is a satire on today, and shows its weakness. [ Young ]

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. [ Proverb ]

That which may fall out at any time may fall out today. [ Proverb ]

Rejoice, Shrovetide today, for tomorrow you'll be ashes. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow comes, and we are where? Then let us live today. [ Schiller ]

Duty and today are ours; results and futurity belong to God. [ Horace Greeley ]

Falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago. [ Whittier ]

A good book is the best of friends - the same today and forever. [ Tupper ]

Live only in a great Today, whose happy thoughts weave golden hours. [ Josephine Rollett Wright ]

Contentment with today's lot makes candidacy for a better lot tomorrow. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

The children of today will be the architects of our country's destiny in 1900. [ James A. Garfield ]

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow will be as distant then as it is today. [ Tome Burguillos ]

Today, we are all adrift, having nothing more either to venerate or to believe. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

It's better to love today than tomorrow. A pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost. [ A. Ricard ]

We usually lose the today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Property is like snow; if it falleth level today, it will be blown into drifts tomorrow. [ Sinclair ]

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. [ Charles William Eliot ]

He who prorogues the honesty of today till tomorrow, will probably prorogue his tomorrows to eternity. [ Lavater ]

The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost? [ Confucius ]

The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of today. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. [ Dumas ]

What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

Of yore, they languished, they burned, they died for love; today, they chat about it, they make it, and, more often, they buy it. [ Jouy ]

I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of today are wont to be fairer and truer in tomorrow's memory. [ Thoreau ]

I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love today, than the felicities of heaven afar off. [ Bovee ]

Everything comes and goes. Today in joy, tomorrow in sorrow. We advance, we retreat, we struggle; then, the eternal and profound silence of death! [ Victor Hugo ]

If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. [ George Macdonald ]

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work today, would have to begin it again tomorrow. [ Colton ]

Every man's experience of today is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. Tomorrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion. [ Charles Mackay ]

Every day is a gift I receive from heaven; let us enjoy today that which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and tomorrow belongs to no one. [ Mancroix ]

He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of tomorrow. [ Johnson ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]

Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]

The junk you collect today is the garbage your children have to deal with after you die. Don't burden them with this. They have their own lives to live. Don't make garbage your legacy.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams today, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is tomorrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. [ Emerson ]

Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of today. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely to amuse his contemporaries. [ P. G. Hamerton ]

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured; today is only thine; Which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Quarles ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do today that you may enjoy tomorrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other. [ B. R. Haydon ]

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

today in Scrabble®

The word today is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters today:

TODAY
(39)
TOADY
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word today

TODAY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In today

TODAY
(39)
TOADY
(39)
DOTY
(36)
TODAY
(34)
TOADY
(34)
TOADY
(33)
TODAY
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TOADY
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TOADY
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TODAY
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DOTY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TOADY
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TODAY
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TOADY
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TOADY
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TOADY
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TODAY
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DOTY
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DOTY
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DOTY
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DOTY
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TOADY
(22)
TODAY
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DAY
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DAY
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DAY
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TOAD
(21)
YOD
(21)
YOD
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YOD
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DOTY
(20)
TODAY
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TOADY
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TOADY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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TOADY
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TOADY
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TOY
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TOADY
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TOAD
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TOY
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TOY
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DOTY
(16)
DOTY
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DOTY
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DOTY
(16)
YA
(15)
TOAD
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YA
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DAY
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AY
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AY
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TODAY
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YOD
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TOAD
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TOY
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TOADY
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TODAY
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TODAY
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YOD
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DO
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today in Words With Friends™

The word today is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters today:

TOADY
(42)
TODAY
(42)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word today

TODAY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In today

TOADY
(42)
TODAY
(42)
DOTY
(39)
TOADY
(36)
DOTY
(33)
TODAY
(32)
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TODAY
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Words within the letters of today

2 letter words in today (7 words)

3 letter words in today (7 words)

4 letter words in today (2 words)

5 letter words in today (Anagrams) (2 words)

today + 1 blank (1 word)

today + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence today

Words that start with today (2 words)

Words with today in them (1 word)

Words that end with today (1 word)

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