'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
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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.
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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
“That’s a good one, Harry, but I doubt he has any left. He ’ll go soon, don’t you think?”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
She added: "For now lots of love, especially to anyone dealing with similar issues. LL xx"
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
For the latter, they were joined on stage by a host of A-list stars, including indie titan Beck, Icelandic songstress Laufey, country singer Maren Morris and rap icon LL Cool J.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
LL gave him one of his trademark hats as a parting gift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
We became curious about the real Children’s Crusade, so O’Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Whan erþ haþ erþ wiþ streinþ þus geten, Alast he haþ is leinþ miseislich i-meten. ll. 41-46, 23-26. v.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
I.95 ll. 79-80 Three irregular lines in Ff.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Some light is thrown on the date by ll. 524-6.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
If erth haue mys don, he getyth scharpe shours. ll. 33-35.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
The remark that ll. 20-1 of the above extract from the Adelph. could not refer to young men like Scipio and Laelius was made even in antiquity.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
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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