Search results
- Dictionarytill/til/
preposition
- 1. up to (the point in time or the event mentioned); until: "I went to bed at 8 last night and slept till 6.30" Similar Opposite
conjunction
- 1. up to the point in time or the event mentioned; until: "he did not enter the town till it was nearly dark"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
Many assume that till is an abbreviated form of until. Actually, it is a distinctive word that existed in English at least a century before until, both as a preposition meaning “to” and a conjunction meaning “until.”.
TILL definition: 1. up to (the time that); until: 2. the drawer in a cash register (= a machine which records sales…. Learn more.
7 meanings: 1. Also (not standard): 'til. short for until 2. Scottish to; towards 3. dialect in order that 1. to cultivate and.... Click for more definitions.
The noun till means the same as "cash register." When you work at the store long enough, they'll let you operate the till. When you pay taxes to your town, they go into the local till, or government fund, for community improvements.
Till definition: up to the time of; until. See examples of TILL used in a sentence.
TILL definition: 1. until: 2. a machine that holds the money in a shop and shows how much you have to pay 3. a…. Learn more.
Definition of till conjunction in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Till definition: To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate.
till. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English till1 /tɪl, tl/ S1 preposition, conjunction spoken until I didn’t have a boyfriend till I was 17. The shop’s open till nine o'clock on Fridays.
Until, till, and 'til are all used in modern English to denote when something will happen. Until and till are both standard, but what might be surprising is that till is the older word. 'Til, with one L, is an informal and poetic shortening of until.
