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• 'll
  'll

  a contraction of will:
• LL
  LL

  abbreviation

  Late Latin.
• ll.
  ll.

  abbreviation

  lines.
• l.l.
  l.l.

  abbreviation

  in the place quoted.

'll

¹ American  

1. a contraction of will:

   I'll answer the phone. He'll pay the check. What'll we do?

2. contraction of till 1 (used when the preceding word ends in t ).

   Wait'll your father comes home!

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LL ² American  

Or L.L.

abbreviation

1. Late Latin.

2. Low Latin.

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ll. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. lines.

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l.l. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. in the place quoted.

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l.l. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. loose-leaf.

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LL ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Late Latin

2. Low Latin

3. Lord Lieutenant

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ll. ² British  

abbreviation

1. lines (of written matter)

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Usage

See contraction.

Etymology

Origin of l.l.

From Latin locō laudātō

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

'll LL ll. l.l.

"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 eventually dressed the rap icons Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J. His story deserves more ink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

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 Dudamel looked positively rapt locking in with LL Cool J, spinning John Williams’ “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars” into LL’s “Rock the Bells.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

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. 82-86, ll. 64-169.—This first song of the Chorus covers a great deal of Bacchic doctrine and myth.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

Some light is thrown on the date by ll. 524-6.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

The fact that religion lies in the spirit rather than the observance is very clearly stated in the Romaunt of the Rose, ll. 6225-94.

From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow

It is possible, too, that we have here a reference to the lion described by Casca in ll. 20-22.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black

The Greek original is unknown; but ll. 462-86 contain a speech from the Choragus, in the style of the παράβασις of the Old Comedy.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

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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