'll
a contraction of will:
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'll
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a contraction of will:
I'll answer the phone. He'll pay the check. What'll we do?
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contraction of till 1 (used when the preceding word ends in t ).
Wait'll your father comes home!
LL
2
American
Or
L.L.
ll.
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American
abbreviation
l.l.
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l.l.
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LL
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abbreviation
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Late Latin
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Low Latin
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Lord Lieutenant
ll.
2
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abbreviation
Usage
See contraction.
Etymology
Origin of l.l.
From Latin locō laudātō
Example Sentences
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"We do get this quite regularly - as soon as we have a few hours of rain, you can guarantee we 'll have a lake down here."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
“I think to say he’s close is accurate and I ’ll just leave it at that,” Budenholzer said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
“For the people that came out ... hopefully we ‘ll continue to get more of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
“Well, wish for two hundred pounds, then; that ‘ll just do it.”
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2014
After a few moments of amicable silence, Bailey works up the nerve to ask a question, one he’s not sure he ’ll be comfortable asking once they meet back up with Widget.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
See the best looks of the night here, from nominee Colman Domingo, presenter LL Cool J, “The Pitt” actor Supriya Ganesh, and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He made multiple installments of “1, 2, 3, 4” by LL Cool J, in which Williams dressed in the eccentric style of former NFL quarterback Cam Newton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The ceremony was hosted by a largely off-screen LL Cool J who handed out only seven awards during the telecast.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
But the most recognizable example is LL Cool J's "Father."
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
Naughty by Nature, LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., and Heavy D & The Boyz; we had left home with only these cassettes and the clothes that we wore.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
Pp. 93-95, ll. 330-369.—These three speeches are very clearly contrasted.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
When erþ is in erþe, þe rof is on þe chynne; Þan schullen an hundred wormes wroten on þe skin. ll. 63-64. v.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
The play is noted for the two Carthaginian renderings of the soliloquy of Hanno, ll. 930-9, and ll. 940-9.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Maccabees, 474 ll. folioed, N. T. 122 leaves, 'A Briefe Table' HH h iii to LLl iii.,
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater
V.82 ll. 94-96 Brutus here strikes again, full and strong, the proper keynote of the play.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
For instances, see Grundtvig, l.l., and under the closely related Lindormen, ii.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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