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untill

untill is the obsolete spelling of until.

Meaning of until

Preposition

until

  1. Up to the time of (something happening); pending.
    • If you can wait until after my meeting with her, we'll talk then.
  2. Up to (a certain place)
    • Keep walking until the second set of traffic lights, then turn left.
  3. Before (a time).
    • I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  4. (obsolete) To; physically towards.
    • He rousd himselfe full blith, and hastned them untill.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4
  5. Up to the time that the foods or other things available to sell, or tasks which need to be completed, run out.
    • Bake sale on Saturday, 2pm until.

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Questions about untill

What is untill the obsolete spelling of?
Untill is the obsolete spelling of until.

Words near untill in the dictionary

  1. until we meet again
  2. untile
  3. untiled
  4. untiles
  5. untiling
  6. untill
  7. untillable
  8. untilled
  9. untilt
  10. untiltable
  11. untilted

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