til
noun
the sesame plant.
til
1 American
[til, teel]
/ tɪl, til /
Also
teel
noun
'til
2
American
[til]
/ tɪl /
preposition
TIL
3
American
Or
til
abbreviation
til
British
/ tiːl, tɪl /
noun
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
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In a 9-6 vote, the council voted initial approval of an ordinance to postpone implementation of the $30 hourly minimum til 2030, instead of 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
The programme is on BBC One Scotland from 10:00 til 11:00, then continues on Radio Scotland until 12:00.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
Let’s fake it til you become it, you know?
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
“There's men removing the old garments behind the pork, Prince O. Why don’t you repair there and change and I'll engage this fine lady til you return so she don’t become listless a-waiting.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
"The more he just whips around policy, the more the markets will not care, but as the old saying goes, nothing matters 'til it matters and then it's the only thing that matters," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
Glastonbury saved the best 'til last, with a triumphant set by American star Olivia Rodrigo to close the festival's Pyramid Stage.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
I swing and swing ’til there’s a ragged hole around the window.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The researchers further refined their TIL selection process by applying a secondary algorithmic filter to screen for only those tumor-reactive T-cells with "high avidity" -- that is, those that bind strongly to tumor antigens.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 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
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