til
/tɪl/
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unstressed/təl/
til conjunction: until, till.
Conjunction
til
Preposition
til
- 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...2004 Nov, Harper, Gary W., Gannon, Christine, Watson, Susan E., Catania, Joseph A., and Dolcini, M. Margaret, “The Role of Close Friends in African American Adolescents' Dating and Sexual Behavior”...
- Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again.2008 Winter, Michael Copperman, “Gone”, in Arkansas Review, volume 39, number 3, Arkansas State University, pages 139–145
Noun
til (plural tils)
- Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
- Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Phrase capitalized: TIL
TIL
Examples of til in a sentence
- Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.
- If you wait til next week, you'll find yourself paying over the odds for the tickets.
- Kelly is on mat leave til Thursday, then her husband starts paternity leave.
Forms of til
| Conjunction | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | 'til |
| Noun | |
| plural | tils |
| alternative form | teal |
| alternative form | teel |
Origin of til
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.
Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).
Words formed from til
- til to
- til seed
Phrases with til
Words that rhyme with til
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chill
- drill
- Seville
- will
- skill
- still
- frill
- mil
- sill
- swill
- fulfill
- goodwill
- till
- until
- brazil
- downhill
- prill
- quadrille
- shill
- shrill
- thrill
- Chapel Hill
- jill
- McGill
- nill
- squill
- trill
- uphill
- Walton-on-the-Hill
- Baskerville
- dill
- grille
- he'll
- instill
- Ithkuil
- krill
- manille
- nil
- phil
- purple pill
- refill
- remill
- rill
- thill
- twill
- vill
- vril
- 'til
Questions about til
- What does til mean?
- Til means until, till.
- What part of speech is til?
- Til can be a conjunction, a preposition, a noun or a phrase.
- How do you pronounce til?
- Til is pronounced /tɪl/.
Words near til in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: til (page history and authors); TIL (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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