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to-day

to-day adverb: dated spelling of today.

Adverb

to‐day (not comparable)

  1. Dated spelling of today.
    • Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 19
    • Government are inviting tenders for the maintaince of a new ferry service between Hongkong, Hunghom, Kowloon City and Sai Wan Ho, according to the Gazette issued to-day.1933 September 23, “NEW FERRY SERVICE”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, number 14107, →OCLC, page 1, column 4

Noun

to‐day (plural to-days)

  1. Dated spelling of today.

Forms of to-day

pluralto-days

Questions about to-day

What does to-day mean?
To-day means dated spelling of today.
What part of speech is to-day?
To-day can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near to-day in the dictionary

  1. to-be
  2. to-bread
  3. to-breads
  4. to-come
  5. to-date
  6. to-day
  7. to-days
  8. to-do
  9. to-do list
  10. to-do lists
  11. to-dos

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