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til

conjunctionprepositionnouncommon in dialogue

  • //tɪl//
  • //təl//
  • //tiːl//

until, till

conjunction

  1. 1

    until, till

Etymology

From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.

preposition

  1. 1

    until, till

    I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up...

    Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again.

    EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE

noun

  1. 1

    Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)

  2. 2

    Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).

Forms

plural
tils
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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