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Definition of 'til'

English

Alternative forms

* 'til

Conjunction

(en-con)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
  • {{quote-magazine
    |date= |year=c1390 |month= |first=Geoffry |last=Chaucer |author= |coauthors= |title=The Canterbury Tales |passage=He slepeth...Al nyght til the sonne gan aryse. }}
    {{quote-magazine
    |date= |year=2010 |month=May |first=James |last=Parker |author= |coauthors= |title=Revenge of the Wimps |volume=305 |issue=4 |page=38 |magazine=The Atlantic Monthly |publisher= |issn= citation |passage=EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE }}

    Preposition

    (en-prep)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
  • {{quote-book
    |year=1425 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Wycliffe |title=Wycliffe Bible |chapter=Ezekial 1:27 |url= |genre= |publisher= |isbn= |page= |passage=Fro þe leendis]] of hym & aboue, & fro þe [[lende|leendis of him til beneþe I sa? þe licnesse of fier.}}
    {{quote-magazine
    |date= |year=2004 |month=Nov |first= |last= |author= |coauthors=Harper, Gary W. / Gannon, Christine / Watson, Susan E. / Catania, Joseph A. / Dolcini, M. Margaret |title=The Role of Close Friends in African American Adolescents' Dating and Sexual Behavior |volume=41 |issue=4 |page=351-362 |magazine=Journal of Sex Research |publisher= |issn= |url= |passage=I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up... }}
    {{quote-magazine
    |date=Winter |year=2008 |month= |first=Michael |last=Copperman |author= |coauthors= |title=Gone |volume=39 |issue=3 |page=139-145 |magazine=Arkansas Review |publisher=Arkansas State University |issn= |url= |passage=Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again. }}
  • (archaic) ~ to : as far as; down to; up to, until
  • {{quote-book
    |year=1425 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Wycliffe |title=Wycliffe Bible |chapter=Ezekial 40:15 |url= |genre= |publisher= |isbn= |page= |passage=He maad frountis by sixti cubitis ... and bifore the face of the ?ate that lastid til to the face of the porche of the ynner ?ate, fifti cubitis.}}

    Similar to 'til'

    ttyl, teal, tell, tall, tail, tool, till, toll, toil, tel, tael, teel, teil