'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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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
“Well, don’t you worry about Brightbill; he ’ll be safe in the flock.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
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
The unreleased songs – such as “Truth on Youth,” which appears to be a rap duet between Jackson and LL Cool J – will not be publicly released.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 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
Examples of it are xliii greting, 166, dreping, i.e. slaughter, 2684, buttinge, skirming, wrastling, putting, harping, piping, reding; see ll. 2322-2327.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
It may be that ll. 2269-71 and ll. 2272-74 are 111 to be transposed, but I don’t think it necessary: Torrent’s men flee when they see that their chief has surrendered.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
That some of the Senate wished to interfere in this matter is probably shown by ll. 45-6, ‘Donec labantis consilio patres firmaret auctor numquam alias dato.’ iii.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
The word briefs is used in the same sense by the old French writers, and in Laȝamon we meet with some lines nearly corresponding with the present; see ll. 6669-6678.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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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