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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“As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it til now.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 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
I can’t wait til Harrison Ford just waves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
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
“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
She has a lot of relatives in the building trades and gets them access to an empty office, unfinished beyond its impressive lobby, where they‘re faking it ‘til they’re making it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I couldn’t have known how these lessons would resonate in my own life ’til my late 30s, my late 20s, when my wife handed me a role that I was looking for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
"I think they thought it was easy 'til they did it, then they realised," he continued.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
And for the first time in a while, I slept ’til morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
“We have no Sparra warrior to look after us. Warbeak brave like father was. Now father, he dead. I learn to stand up for us ’til Warbeak grow into great warrior some day.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"By adding a drug that inhibits PGE2 production to the TIL culture medium we restored the ability of TILs to respond to IL-2 and improved the expansion of tumor-reactive TILs more than two-fold," said Grimm.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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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