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• til
  til

  noun

  the sesame plant.
• 'til
  'til

  preposition

  until; till.
• TIL
  TIL

  abbreviation

  today I learned.

til

¹ American  

[til, teel] / tɪl, til /

Also teel

noun

1. the sesame plant.

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'til ² American  

[til] / tɪl /

preposition

1. until; till.

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TIL ³ American  

Or til

abbreviation

1. today I learned.

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til British  

/ tiːl, tɪl /

noun

1. another name for sesame, esp a variety grown in India

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Commonly Confused

See till ¹.

Etymology

Origin of til¹

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1830–40

Origin of 'til²

Aphetic variant of until

Origin of TIL³

From its use in digital communications

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

til 'til TIL

The court heard that in another text to Celeste, sent in June 2024, Burke wrote: "Let's let this abortion be the last one til we have the real one…"

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Some customers will have decided they’re gonna stop betting on football til the season comes around again next year,” Jackson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

I waded a long way out, til the bottom grew mucky and seaweed tickled my legs, then submerged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Let’s fake it til you become it, you know?

From Salon ● May 20, 2024

“I live right close. Wait til I get my papers and lock the door, and I’ll take you home and fix it.”

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

And for the first time in a while, I slept ’til morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

And then, at five ’til 6, there was only one tent left.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

I started there fully like six, seven and I played there 'til 15.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

He addressed his private battles on the gutsy Survive, which was released at midnight, and which opens with the line: "How long 'til it feels / Like the wound's finally starting to heal?"

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

Far as he was concerned he was lost in the fog and intended to stay that way—leastwise ’til his net was up, then he’d think about matters.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

But TIL therapy doesn't work for everyone, as the researchers found in their earlier study.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

And yes, TIL is actually included in the guide, but so are thousands of other abbreviations that I’m convinced someone just made up.

From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2022

As Adams tweeted to Keller soon after the article appeared, “The main thing is that I am alive. Do not write me off and make statements about how my life ends TIL IT DOES, SIR.”

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2014

Still, Sumit Mazumder, chairman of TIL Limited, a heavy equipment manufacturer, said he is more optimistic about West Bengal’s prospects.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2012

Injected back into the body, the engineered TIL cells would specifically seek out and destroy melanoma cells.

From Time Magazine Archive