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
My dad is like, “I’ve never done any of this and I’m living til 80.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Instead of waiting til December, it updates weekly throughout the year, and creates a running playlist of your favourite songs and artists.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
Let’s fake it til you become it, you know?
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
“I live right close. Wait til I get my papers and lock the door, and I’ll take you home and fix it.”
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
“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
“And now every child in D.C. from the time they’re born ’til they’re 5 years old gets a free book delivered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
“You’m gennelbeast bide by ’ere ’til us back.”
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
To keep the TIL cells vigorous and growing, the NCI team had to inject the mice with additional IL-2, but only about a tenth as much as in the LAK treatments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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