til

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/tɪl/unstressed/təl//tiːl/

conjunction

until, till

OriginMiddle English til ← Old English til ← Proto-Germanic *tilą →
CommonScrabble 3
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Meanings

til1

conjunction

alternative 'til

  1. colloquialuntil, till
preposition

alternative 'til

  1. colloquialuntil, till

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

    2010 May, James Parker, “Revenge of the Wimps”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 305, number 4, page 38
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    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”, in Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 4, pages 351–362

    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

til2

nountil (plural tils)

plural tils · alternative teal · alternative teel

  1. Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
  2. Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.

TIL3

phrase
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismReddit slangInitialism of today I learned....

    Kids played with yo-yos in Ancient Greece? TIL.

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    TIL that scientists call the universe's average color "cosmic latte".

Origin

til · conjunction, preposition

  1. Proto-Germanic*til“to, towards”
  2. Proto-Germanic*tilą“goal”
  3. Old Englishtil“to, until”
  4. Middle Englishtil
  5. Englishtil

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.

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til · noun

  1. Hindiतिल“sesame”
  2. Englishtil

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with til

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

til. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/til

MLA

“til.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/til. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “til,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/til.

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